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Vanuatu country report : profile and results from survey work at Paunangisu village, Moso island, Uri and Uripiv islands and the Maskelyne

Biodiversity Conservation

Friedman, Kim ... [et al.]

vanuatu

We are the ocean : selected works / Epeli Hauofa

Biodiversity Conservation

Hauofa, Epeli

Management review of environmental governance within the United Nations system

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Inomata, Tadanori

To strengthen the governance of and programmatic and administrative support for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) by United Nations organizations by identifying measures to promote enhanced coordination, coherence and synergies between MEAs and the United Nations system, thus increasing United Nations system's contribution towards a more integrated approach to international environmental governance and management at national, regional and international levels.

governance

Social research methods

Bryman, Alan

An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific: a case study in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Climate Change Resilience

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Reti, Muliaga Joe

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has identified the development of subsistence agriculture as a key strategy for the support of its rapidly growing population. The most important food crops are copra, breadfruit and pandanus. These crops used to be abundant during their seasons but harvests are reported to have been disrupted by climatic extremes such as typhoons and droughts in recent years. Prolonged periods of drought over the past twenty years caused changes to the water tables which in turn affected taro and breadfruit production during the period. This situation is expected to worsen with future climate change and has the potential to seriously affect the governments strategy for the development of the subsistence agriculture sector.

Review of the agricultural knowledge system in Fiji: opportunities and limitations of participatory methods and platform to promote innovation development - dissertation

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Institut fur Wirtscharfts

The small Island country Fiji has an articulated agricultural knowledge system with private and public institutions. The agricultural research and extension departments of the Ministry of Agriculture are the focus of this study. A participatory action research methodology was used to investigate the potential of participatory methods and to improve information flows between fanners and the Ministry in order to achieve a systematic Integration of farmers' problems into the knowledge system. Furthermore, the potential of platforms in improvement of the efficiency of work in the Ministry was studied

fiji

An assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security in the Pacific: a case study in the Cook Islands

Climate Change Resilience

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Reti, Muliagatele Joe

For small island countries like the Cook Islands, no issue merits more attention and action today than climate change! Climate change is the defining human development issue of this generation as it threatens to erode human rights and freedoms to make choices and lead lives the way people and countries value.

Guidance towards implementation of national biosafety frameworks: lessons learned from the UNEP demonstration projects

The global UNEP-GEF BCH capacity building project learning from experience

Climate change and food security in Pacific islands countries

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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SPREP/USP

The overall purpose of this paper is to address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. It attempts to bring to the fore food security threats associated with climate change in the food production and supply environments, as well as the broader livelihood and ecological changes that will occur as a consequence. Recognizing the different geographical regions around the Pacific and how climate change would impact on their food security situations opens up new opportunities for understanding why changes happen. An attempt will also be made to address the question; how can Pacific Islanders be assisted to enhance their capacity to reduce risk and make optimal use of current climate resources in order to capitalize on benefits that may arise due to the changing climate. In doing so, it will attempt to highlight some of the current impacts of climate change reported by Pacific Island countries in their national communications to the UNFCCC and their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs), and what attempts have been made to seriously address these issues. It is recognized that climate change is an additional stress that needs to be managed by the agricultural and broader development communities but it should also be emphasized that climate change will further exacerbate current development stresses that are already plaguing the agriculture community and national governments. This paper will try to draw out these links and discuss ways to proactively address the situation now rather then later

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