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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2007

    This contributory chapter of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the status of climate change mitigation in agriculture and its implications on development, production and consumption trends. It presents regional and global trends in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as future global trends.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2007

    Climate change poses severe threats on agriculture. Even though some countries may experience beneficial change to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the majority, particularly developing countries, will experience significant negative impacts. This paper by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) promotes an integrative, holistic framework for climate change adaptation. It presents the potential impacts of climate change and the different approaches to adaptation, as well as knowledge gained through FAO's experience in the field.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2007
    Africa

    Focuses on the social protection aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights in southern and eastern Africa. Discusses the relationship between HIV and AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods (including children’s property and inheritance rights). Considers factors that render children’s property rights more vulnerable than adults’ property rights. Reviews literature on social protection of children, emphasizing historical developments, types of child social protection, and recipients and providers of child social protection.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2008

    Following from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture project, this book examines the relationships and linkages between land use and water management and social systems. Given that agriculture is the largest economic sector in many developing countries, this volume provides innovative ideas for the prevention of land degradation and for improving the sustainability of food production in the developing world.

  5. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    September, 2007
    Mozambique

    A Estratégia de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (ESAN II) resulta da evolução da

    ESAN I aprovada pelo Governo de Moçambique em 1998, através da Resolução Interna

    16/98. A ESAN I foi elaborada na sequência da Cimeira Mundial de Alimentação

    (CMA), realizada em Roma em 1996, quando os diversos países se comprometeram a

    reduzir a fome para metade até 2015. Este objectivo coincide com o Objectivo número

    um do Desenvolvimento do Milénio (ODM), aprovado na Cimeira do Milénio, em 2000.

  6. Library Resource

    Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007

    The report seeks to analyze what has been learned about how agricultural interventions influence nutrition outcomes in low-and middle-income countries, focusing on the target populations of the millennium development goals-people living on less than a dollar a day. It also sets out to synthesize lessons from past efforts to improve the synergies between agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture.

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    From Agriculture to Nutrition: Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes cover image
    Reports & Research
    January, 2008
    Global

    In a world of food abundance, millions of people suffer from poor nutrition. In some parts of the world, the poor have inadequate access to energy from food to meet their energy requirements. In these locations, food shortage is often a seasonal phenomenon and micronutrients are also generally lacking in the diet. Elsewhere, there is a stable supply of energy but the poor have monotonous diets lacking in essential micronutrients.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2007
    Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper analyses the livelihoods of the Borana pastoral communities of Southern Oromiya in Ethiopia. It aims to inform policy makers, donors, and development practitioners about the best strategies for protecting and promoting sustainable livelihoods in the region. The study is based on survey data from participatory research carried out in three communities, as well as stakeholder consultations at district and regional levels.

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Sierra Leone, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Sierra Leone has recently emerged from a long period of political instability and civil war, and is ranked among the world’s poorest countries. Thousands of displaced people are in the process of returning totheir villages to rebuild their mainly farming-based livelihoods, and many are growing food crops for the first time in a decade.

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