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  The Future of rice security under climate change

  Centre For Non-Traditional Security Studies, 2016

  Food systems are climate and weather dependent; heat stress and changes in rainfall patterns and relative humidity are likely to regulate crop yields. Elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) are likely to directly and indirectly bring new challenges to the stability and sustainability of global food production including rice.
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  Thailand's seafood slaves: human trafficking, slavery and murder in Kantang’s fishing industry

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2016

  The Thai seafood industry employs more than 800,000 people, while seafood exports are valued at $6 billion. Slavery, ‘pirate’ fishing and other serious crimes continue to plague Thailand’s seafood sector highlighting the shortcomings in private sector initiatives and government controls.
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  impact evaluation of Mae Lao Irrigation improvement project, Thailand

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012

  The aim of the study is to make an estimate of the impact of the Mae Lao Irrigation Improvement Project (MLIIP), a component of the Sector Program Loan (ASPL) funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) between 2000 & 2003.
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  Fair company–community partnerships in palm oil development

  Oxfam, 2014

  This discussion paper argues that palm oil production can lead to greenhouse gas emissions, land grabs and exploitation. But, it says that sustainable production, investment and sourcing can create benefits for the climate and communities.
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  Agribusiness large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in Southeast Asia - Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2013

  The series of studies discussed in this overview pull together updated information about large-scale land acquisitions in the region, with the aim of identifying trends, common threats, divergences and possible solutions. As well as summarising trends in investment, trade, crop development and land tenure arrangements, the studies focus on the land tenure and human rights challenges.
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  Topic Guide: Agriculture and growth

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This is the first of a series of Topic Guides which provides resources to support professional development of DFID advisers and other development professionals. This Topic Guide provides an overview of agriculture and growth.It presents the issues and arguments relating to the topic, and illustrates these with case studies from Thailand, Ethiopia, Africa, Rwanda and Kenya.
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  Banking for the future: Savings, security and seeds. A short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The global seed market has grown considerably the last decades into a multibillion dollar industry, largely due to more farmers purchasing seeds. Despite the growth in the commercial seed sector, the majority of the farmers in the developing world still depend on the harvest season to collect seeds.
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  Adaptation to climate change and managing disaster risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

  Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, Barbados, 2003

  This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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  Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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  Values of inland fisheries in the Mekong river basin

  The WorldFish Center, 2007

  Asia has the most productive inland fisheries in the world. The fishery sector contributes significantly to the national economies of the region. Inland fisheries also improve food security by providing a source of protein and a livelihood for millions of people in this part of the world, especially the rural poor.

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