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Food security and climate change: Challenges to 2050 and beyond by Nelson, Gerald C., Rosegrant, Mark W., Palazzo, Amanda, Gray, Ian, Ingersoll, Christina, Robertson, Richard D., Tokgoz, Simla, Zhu, Tingju, Sulser, Timothy B., Ringler, Claudia, Msangi, Siwa, You, Liangzhi

“…A world population approaching 9 billion by 2050 and higher incomes in hitherto poor countries will lead to increased food demand, which means significant challenges to sustainable agricultural production.…”
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Regional developments: Central Asia [in 2025 GFPR] by Akramov, Kamiljon T., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Rajiv, Sharanya

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Regional developments: Latin America and the Caribbean [in 2025 GFPR] by Piñeiro, Valeria, McNamara, Brian, Segura, Joaquín Arias, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

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The road to resilience: Rethinking responses to food crises by Kosec, Katrina, Swinnen, Johan

“…In 2022, the world faced multiple crises. Globally, disruptions to food systems continued amid a protracted pandemic, major natural disasters, civil unrest and political instability, and the growing impacts of climate change, all while the war in Ukraine exacerbated a global food and fertilizer crisis. …”
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Gender Equality, Climate Change and Agriculture in the MENA region: Priorities and Possibilities by Baruah, Bipasha, Najjar, Dina

“…The MENA region is both disproportionately vulnerable to compound climate fragility risks and among the most gender unequal regions in the world. Although we must be wary of over-generalizing about women’s needs and experiences across such a diverse set of geographic, ecological, cultural, socio-economic, political, and institutional contexts, the existing body of research on gender and climate change in MENA does enable us to comment reasonably certainly on what we know and what we do not know about the opportunities and challenges women experience in agriculture, the gendered effects and outcomes of climate change upon agriculture, and the roles women have played and could play in the future in adapting and building resilience to climate effects. …”
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Ethiopia Food System Profile by Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Béné, Christophe, Lundy, Mark M., Hernandez Barco, Ricardo Alfonso, Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando

“…The first main block recognizes how environmental, demographic, technological, political, economic, social, and cultural drivers influence the food system—from production to consumption. …”
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Opinion: We must build food system resilience before the next crisis by Kosec, Katrina, Swinnen, Johan

“…In February 2022, news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated headlines around the world. Policymakers everywhere worried about the potential ripple effects of the invasion on the economic recovery from COVID-19, as well as on political stability — and food and nutrition security. …”
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Environmental management needs the support of secure rights and appropriate governance by Barrow, Edmund

“…Such trends are a measure of declining ecosystem health (WWF 2020), and the World Economic Forum ranks biodiversity loss as a top-five risk to the global economy. …”
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Digitizing development: Enablers and inhibitors of mobile app-based population census adoption by Ofosu-ampong, Kingsley

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Is local best? Examining the evidence for local adaptation in trees and its scale by Boshier, David, Broadhurst, Linda, Cornelius, Jonathan, Gallo, Leonardo Ariel, Koskela, Jarkko, Loo, Judy, Petrokofsky, Gillian, St Clair, Bradley

“…With limited information about the extent and scale of adaptive variation in native trees, discussion about suitable seed sources often emphasises “local” in a very narrow sense or within political boundaries, rather than being based on sound evidence of the scale over which adaptation occurs. …”
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How can climate science support peace and security in the Middle East and North Africa? by Dutta Gupta, Tanaya, Schapendonk, Frans, Taylor, Alice, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is of the most volatile and conflict-affected regions in the world, and is also highly vulnerable to climate-related risks. …”
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Border carbon adjustments: Should production or consumption be taxed? by Martin, Will

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Building community resilience for food security in a shock-prone country by Ulimwengu, John M., Collins, Julia, Tefera, Wondwosen, Kurtz, Julie

“…In a world rocked by environmental, political, and economic shocks, achieving resilience has emerged as a goal because it captures the essence of well-being over time despite the inevitable ups and downs captured in snapshots of present circumstances. …”
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Introduction to public policy and food security by Hendriks, Sheryl L., Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…According to the FAO et al. (2022), the prevalence of undernourishment jumped from 8.0 per cent in 2019 to 9.3 per cent in 2020, but rose more slowly in 2021 to reach 9.8 per cent of the world’s population. Progress towards the SDGs is threatened by ongoing and developing crises and challenges affecting global food availability and distribution as well as a mix of complex economic, political and social access to food.…”
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The roads towards complex water governance: The Colombian case study by Distefano, T., Isaza, A. S., Morlin, G. S., Carmona, V. P., Palacio, C. I. V., Arango-Aramburo, S.

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Ke mana harus melangkah?: masyarakat, hutan, dan perumusan kebijakan di Indonesia by Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Colfer, C.J.P.

“…Indonesia contains some of the world's most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil of the past few years. …”
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Rehabilitation of degraded forests to improve livelihoods of poor farmers in South China by Liu Dachang

“…Degradation of forests and forest lands is a problem in many parts of the world and is particularly serious in south China. …”
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Women and men in tropical dry forests: a preliminary review by Colfer, C.J.P., Elias, Marlène, Jamnadass, Ramni H.

“…From a broad review of 670 publications on gender and forests, ~130 were found to address the world’s dry forests. These were examined with the intent to extract gendered social, cultural, political and economic patterns of relevance in such forests. …”
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How much does climate change add to the challenge of feeding the planet this century? by Aggarwal, Pramod K., Vyas, Shalika, Thornton, Philip K., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…These technologies also have the potential to reduce differences across political, economic and climatic regions. Once these are adopted, climate change may not add significantly to the challenge of food production for the majority of countries except for some potential hotspots distributed around the world. …”
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Informal trade in livestock and livestock products by Grace, Delia, Little, P.

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