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- This study analyses the implementation of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project in Thailand, a project which assesses how bioenergy developments can be implemented without hindering food security. This document contains the methodologies and data. The main findings and recommendations for policy-makers are included in a separate document: BEFS Thailand: key results and policy recommendations for future bioenergy development.
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- Mirella Salvatore; Beau Damen
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1739e/i1739e00.htm
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- This brief report evaluates the positive and negative environmental effects of biofuel production as a method of improving energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to rural development. It examines global trends in biofuels, biofuels in relation to the environment, methods of improving biofuel systems and the future for biofuels. This report was published in 2009.
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- R. W. Howarth; S. Bringezu
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183113e.pdf
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- This policy brief summarizes how global aquaculture uses natural resources and its impacts on the environment and highlights how to more effectively manage the environmental costs so the aquaculture can contribute to food security and environmental sustainability.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2820.pdf
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- This brief attempts to provide an overview of the National Forest Inventories (NFI) in India and to document current and historical elements, their specifications, sampling designs and methods used in NFI.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap185e/ap185e.pdf
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- This document presents lessons learned from the Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture project which sought to demonstrate how the results of various development initiatives in China's Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin could be safeguarded from the effects of climate change. The document is one of a series of IFC SmartLessons from the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, a programme to share lessons learned in development-oriented advisory services and investment operations. It was published in January 2012.
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- Bjorn Conrad; Qun Li
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10420
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- This study examined whether near-future expected changes in climate would affect the supply of food in China and the ability of the country to feed itself. The effect of temperature and precipitation on net crop revenues was examined using a cross section consisting of both rain-fed and irrigated farms in a survey of data from 8,405 households across 28 provinces. This report is Policy Research Working Paper 4470 from The World Bank Development Research Group, Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Team, published in January 2008.
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- Jinxia Wang; Robert Mendelsohn; Ariel Dinar; Jikun Huang; Scott Rozelle; Lijuan Zhang
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6592
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- This report examines the role of safety-net programs in Bangladesh in mitigating seasonal deprivation in the northwest of the country, specifically whether social safety nets can only limit seasonal deprivation or whether they can also address the seasonality of income and employment. This report was published by WorldBank in 2011.
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- Shahidur R. Khandker; M. Abdul Khaleque; Hussain A. Samad
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3631
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- This study describes the potentially suitable areas globally for projects which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while assisting developing countries in achieving sustainable development through afforestation/reforestation activities. It also describes the socio-ecological characteristics of these suitable lands and estimates the impacts of these projects on global, regional and local water cycles. This report was published by IWMI in 2006.
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- Robert J. Zomer; Antonio Trabucco; Oliver van Straaten; Deborah A. Bossio
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.101
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- This document discusses the importance of carp genetic resources, carp production in Asia, progress in carp genetics research, constraints to increased yields, status of introduced carp in Asia, threatened cyprinid species in Asia and carp genetic resources in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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- David J. Penman; Modadugu V. Gupta; Madan M. Dey (editors)
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Pubs/CarpGen/CarpGenetics.pdf
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- This is one of two case studies of aquaculture in Vietnam from a series of individual country case studies which, together with synthesis papers and the report of a workshop, provide a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Le Thanh Hung; Luu Thi Thanh Truc; Huynh Pham Viet Huy
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e13.pdf
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- In this case study, Professor Steve Altaner from the University of Illinois Department of Geology discusses the environmental and economic impacts that diverting rivers for agricultural irrigation has had on the Aral Sea and its surroundings.
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- Steve Altaner
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- Connexions
- http://cnx.org/contents/12bc9f32-ac38-42ab-bc72-59e970126a17@4
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- This article summarizes the results a study conducted in 54 wetlands across 13 districts of Assam, India to evaluate the causes of fish depletion. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2005.
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- T. K. Deka; M. M. Goswami; M. Kakati
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2326.pdf
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- This article discusses the need for a sustainable increase in aquaculture production in Asia to bridge the gap between the supply and the growing demand for fish. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2006.
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- M. V. Gupta
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2347.pdf
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- This report assesses India's changing food consumption patterns (triggered by increasing income and urbanization) and their implications on future food and water demand, predicting that if water productivity can be increased then the need for additional consumptive water use can be eliminated. This report was published by IWMI in 2007.
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- Upali A. Amarasinghe; Tushaar Shah; Om Prakash Singh
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.119
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- This paper examines the changing profile of distribution and ownership of livestock across regions and households, focusing on dry land regions with a case study of Saurashtra region in Gujarat, India. It also examines implications for promoting livelihood security through a stronger interface between livestock and agriculture.
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- Amita Shah
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/lead/ae752e/ae752e00.htm
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- This study aims to advise decision makers on sustainable aquaculture, discussing trends in global aquaculture; aquaculture, environment and health; innovation and technologies; building pro-poor aquaculture and catalyzing aquaculture in less-developed countries. This study was published by WorldBank in 2007.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6908
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- This article examines the spatial distribution of available micronutrients in cultivated soil in Xichang City Sichuan Province, China. The study created contour maps of available micronutrients using geostatistical approaches, and analysed the relationship between available micronutrients and topography, parent materials, irrigation water, land use types and organic matter content. The article was published in the Journal of Geography and Geology; Vol. 4, No. 2; 2012.
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- Zhang Yi; Cai Yan; Wang Chang-quan; Xue Guo-xiang
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- Canadian Center of Science and Education
- http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jgg/article/view/17352
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- This report presents data on the forest sector in China and discusses reforms to forest tenure in collective forest areas. The situation in state forests is also considered. The current and potential future World Bank role in China's forestry sector is examined. This document, report no.63131, was published by The World Bank in May 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2993
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- This article examines grain production in China's Anhui Province during two periods of agricultural reforms, the bottom-up reforms in the early 1980s, and the top-down reforms after China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This article was published in the Journal of Geography and Geology Vol. 4, No. 2; June 2012.
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- Wei Shui; Gregory Veeck
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- Canadian Center of Science and Education
- http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jgg/article/view/17235
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- This report discusses the water resources management situation in China, where lack of water resources is having a detrimental effect on the economic and social development of the country. It describes China's water resource management challenges and goes on to discuss the activities that the World Bank is supporting to improve the situation. This report was published by the World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15526
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- This paper describes the changes in citrus production, consumption, market conditions, price and trade in China in the 1990s and examines future development trends.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/006/y8545e/y8545e00.htm
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- This report provides an overview of the potential impacts of climate change adaptation activities on aquatic and marine ecosystems and associated livelihoods, considering mitigation and adaptation approaches, costs of adaptation and the potential effects of adaptation. It presents examples of adaptation activity in the Bay of Bengal, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand and Indian Ocean Islands countries. This report was published by the FAO in 2014.
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- Clare Shelton
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3569e/i3569e.pdf
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- This paper reviews the predicted impacts of climate change on marine and freshwater capture fisheries and introduces and applies the concepts of vulnerability, adaptation and adaptive capacity.
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- Tim Daw; W. Neil Adger; Katrina Brown; Marie-Caroline Badjeck
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0994e/i0994e03.pdf
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- Three case studies are presented which aim to assist the Government of India in developing adaptation strategies to deal with the human and economic effects of climate variability and change. The studies examine how rural communities cope with extreme climate events, review government programmes and present an integrated modelling system (IMS) to assess future climate risks and vulnerabilities in the study regions. The areas studied were drought-prone regions of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, and selected flood-prone districts in Orissa. This document is Report No. 43946-IN from The World Bank, published in 2008.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/8075
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- This brief report examines the impact of climate change on the food system, the impact of the links between climate change and food on children and recommendations for action to protect children from climate triggered food impacts. This report was published by UNICEF in 2013.
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- Jasmin Burgess
- http://www.unicef.org.uk/Latest/Publications/Climate-change-food-systems-and-children-a-case-for-greater-action-/
