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Science to support climate-smart agricultural development: concepts and results from the MICCA pilot projects in East Africa.

Published online: 04 May 2016

Authors: Rosenstock, T. S. & Mpanda, M. & Kimaro, A. & Luedeling, E. & Kuyah, S. & Anyekulu, E. & Freeman, O. E. & Thiong'o, M. & Abwanda, S. & Mutuo, P. & Mativo, J. & Shaba, S. & Kirui, J. & Franzel, S. & Neufeldt, H. & Shepherd, K. & Neely, C.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This document reports on the concepts driving the scientific activities of FAO's Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Programme's pilot project...

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Improving climate risk transfer and management for climate-smart agriculture: a review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance for scaling up.

Published online: 02 Jan 2019

Authors: Adegoke, J. & Pramod Aggarwal & Rüegg, M. & Hansen, J. & Cuellar, D. & Diro, R. & Shaw, R. & Hellin, J. & Greatrex, H. & Zougmoré, R.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This review consists of a collection of case studies providing the basis for further exploring the function of index-based risk management tools towar...

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Using social, ecological, and climate data to identify the most important places for conservation.

Published online: 02 Dec 2020

Authors: Wineland, S. M. & Fovargue, R. & Gill, K. C. & Rezapour, S. & Neeson, T. M.

Content type: Blog

This paper presents a framework for identifying sites where, across a range of climate scenarios, conservation actions would have high benefits for bi...

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Gender-differentiated impacts of climate variability in Ethiopia: a micro-simulation approach.

Published online: 22 Mar 2017

Authors: Wossen, T.

Content type: Bulletin

In this paper, we examine the gender-specific effects of climate variability using household level data from rural Ethiopia. In particular, this paper...

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Climate change adaptation and adaptive efficacy in the inland fisheries of the Lake Victoria Basin.

Published online: 25 Nov 2022

Authors: Nyboer, E. A. & Musinguzi, L. & Ogutu-Ohwayo, R. & Natugonza, V. & Cooke, S. J. & Young, N. & Chapman, L. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Inland fisheries support the livelihoods of millions of people in riparian communities worldwide but are influenced by increasing climate variability ...

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Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation.

Published online: 21 Nov 2019

Authors: Reid, H. & Hicks, C. & Hou XiaoTing [Hou, X. T. J. ] & Kapos, V. & Rizvi, A. R. & Wicander, S.

Content type: Bulletin

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) - a subset of nature-based approaches to help people adapt to climate change - is an increasingly popular strategy. E...

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Connectivity, dispersal behaviour and conservation under climate change: a response to Hodgson et al.

Published online: 09 Feb 2011

Authors: Doerr, V. A. J. & Barrett, T. & Doerr, E. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Hodgson et al. [Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (2009) 964] argue that connectivity is complex and uncertain, that it can be improved incidentally by in...

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An urgent need for standardised monitoring of Arctic freshwaters.

Published online: 16 Sep 2020

Authors: Britton, R.

Content type: Blog

This paper proposes a freshwater biomonitoring approach that, if adopted, will better enable the effects of climate change on the Arctic freshwaters t...

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Insurance for aquaculture and fishery adaptation to climate change: experiences from China and Viet Nam.

Published online: 07 Aug 2019

Authors: Pongthanapanich, T. & Kim Anh Nguyen & Yuan XinHua

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The broad concept of insurance as a risk management tool and a climate change adaptation strategy in aquaculture and fishery has been widely accepted ...

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Assessing the CO2 capture potential of seagrass restoration projects.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Duarte, C. M. & Sintes, T. & Marbà, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seagrass meadows are important carbon sinks, and they are experiencing a global decline. Restoration of seagrass meadows provides a strategy to mitiga...

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