Climate-smart agriculture: overcoming barriers to target the most vulnerable (blog post)

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  • SMIT, B., PILIFOSOVA, O. V., BURTON, I., CHALLENGER, B., HUQ, S., KLEIN, R. J. T., YOHE, G., ADGER, N., DOWNING, T., HARVEY, E., KANE, S., PARRY, M. L., SKINNER, M., SMITH, J. & WANDEL, J. 2001. Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity. In: McCarthy, J.J., Canziani, O.F., Leary, N.A., Dokken, D.J., White, K.S. (Eds.), Climate Change 2001. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 877–912.
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Climate vulnerability mapping and leave no one behind (blog post)

  • DE SHERBININ, A., BUKVIC, A., ROHAT, G., GALL, M., MCCUSKER, B., PRESTON, B., APOTSOS, A., FISH, C., KIENBERGER, S. & MUHONDA, P. 2019. Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10, e600.
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  • ERICKSEN, P. J., THORNTON, P. K., NOTENBAERT, A. M. O., CRAMER, L., JONES, P. G. & HERRERO, M. T. 2011. Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics.
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  • LAN, L. N., MARTÍNEZ VALLE, A. I., PARKER, L., BOURGOIN, C., THAN, N. T., GUERTEN, N., GROSJEAN, G., HUNG, P. A., LAN, V. C. & TRAN, V. T. 2016. Pragmatic economic valuation of adaptation risk and responses across scales Case study in Vietnam.
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  • NGUYEN T, ROEHRIG F, GROSJEAN G & TRAN D 2017. Climate Smart Agriculture in Vietnam. CSA Country Profiles for Asia Series. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Hanoi.
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Circular Economy and Anaerobic Digestion (blog post)

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  • LOIZIA, P., NEOFYTOU, N. & ZORPAS, A. A. 2019. The concept of circular economy strategy in food waste management for the optimization of energy production through anaerobic digestion. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26, 14766-14773.
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Climate-smart agriculture (further reading)

  • KHATRI-CHHETRI, A., AGGARWAL, P. K., JOSHI, P. K. & VYAS, S. 2017. Farmers’ prioritization of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies. Agricultural systems, 151, 184-191.
  • ZOUGMORÉ, R., PARTEY, S., OUÉDRAOGO, M., OMITOYIN, B., THOMAS, T., AYANTUNDE, A., ERICKSEN, P., SAID, M. & JALLOH, A. 2016. Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors. Agriculture & food security, 5.

Reports

  • IPCC 2014. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [Barros, V.R., C.B. Field, D.J. Dokken, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L.White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 688.

Sustainable consumption patterns (blog post)

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  • MOTTET, A., DE HAAN, C., FALCUCCI, A., TEMPIO, G., OPIO, C. & GERBER, P. 2017. Livestock: on our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate. Global Food Security, 14, 1-8.
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