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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation, Food security

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  Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local communities in Malawi: experiences of women fish-processing groups in the Lake Chilwa Basin

  Earth System Dynamics, 2016

  In recent years, research on climate change and human security has received much attention among policy makers and academia alike.
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  Climate adaptation readiness for agriculture: drought lessons from the Western Cape, South Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  Agriculture is a critical component of national and sub-national economies, yet it is also highly vulnerable to weather extremes and scarce water resources. Climate change is increasing disaster risks in Southern Africa. Despite progress on integrated climate change and disaster risk management frameworks, the 2015/2016 El Niño linked drought severely affected the region.
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  Agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner: messages to the SBSTA 44 agriculture workshops

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016

  This paper synthesizes knowledge within CGIAR and its partners on agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner. A number of agricultural practices and technologies which contribute to these objectives were identified and assessed to generate four key lessons.
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  Climate change vulnerability - cases from CIRDAP member countries

  Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, 2016

  Countries of the Asia Pacific region are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as indicated by the global assessments by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).
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  The challenges of climate change: testing climate smart agricultural solutions for improved food security

  Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2016

  Climate change is likely to have far-reaching consequences for agriculture, natural resources and food security, demanding a response that integrates research, development and policy. Because of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the rural poor, priority investments should be directed towards poor agriculture, fish or forest dependent people whose livelihoods are most at risk.
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  Climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the Caribbean: A food importation perspective

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2003

  This report is a sub-component of the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) project. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which climatic change might alter food production opportunities in countries which have traditionally been major suppliers of food to six selected Caricom countries and thereby alter food security in the region.
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  Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system

  Global Food Security Programme, 2015

  This report examines the resilience of the global food system to extreme weather.
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  Climate change impacts on livestock

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This working paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across Africa.
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  Assessing climate change vulnerability and its effects on food security: Testing a new toolkit in Tanzania

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) working paper presents a new step-by-step toolkit for the implementation of a participatory vulnerability assessment (PVA) in rural localities.
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  PACC Demonstration Guide: Piloting climate change adaptation in food production and food security on low-lying atolls of Solomon Islands

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2015

  This demonstration guide describes the Solomon Islands Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project. Aimed primarily at climate change practitioners across the Pacific region, it gives details of the planning and execution of this food security project, with a focus on lessons learned along the way and best practices identified.

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