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Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative: Progress Report 2015-2016

This report describes key achievements in helping ADB’s Pacific developing member counties achieve sustainable and inclusive growth by improving their business environments.
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Community-Based Mangrove Planting Handbook for Papua New

This publication is an initiative of the Government of Papua New Guinea that presents a step-by-step guide on how to rehabilitate mangroves. The initiative aims to address the impacts of climate change, particularly coastal flooding which is prevalent in Papua New Guinea.
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Evidence review for nutrition-relevant pricing policies and complementary measures in Fiji

The aim of this report is to establish an evidence base for the application of food and beverage taxes and complementary measures to encourage dietary substitution towards healthier, local food products in Fiji.
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Trade, Value Chains, and Food Security The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2015-16 Background paper

The aim of this paper is to present possible directions of research for investigating the relationship between trade and food security by taking into account the role of production fragmentation and the degree of participation of farmers in the different stages of the GVCs.
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Trade policy and food and nutrition security The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2015-16 Background paper

This work contributes to the empirical debate on the impact of agricultural policies on food and nutrition security (FNS). To this aim, it first summarizes some of the arguments and conceptual issues regarding the relationship between agricultural policies and FNS.
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Pro-Resilient Fiji – Strengthening climate resilience of communities for food and nutrition security

The overall objective of the FAO Pro-Resilient Fiji project is to structurally and sustainably reduce food insecurity and nutrition deterioration from climate change-induced disasters by tackling the root and underlying causes of vulnerability.
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Country gender assessment of agriculture and the rural sector in Tonga

This Assessment is also intended to raise awareness about gender issues among policy-makers, FAO officers, NGOs and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Tonga. It provides background and gender-related information and can be used as a tool to mainstream gender perspectives in future policies, projects and programmes in ways that empower rural women.
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Research Series Issue 58: Investing in rural youth in the Asia and the Pacific region

Rural youth in countries with low structural transformation and low rural transformation continue to rely on agriculture for employment; in countries with high levels of transformation, a majority of rural youth are now employed outside agriculture.
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Gendered Impacts of Weather and Climate: Evidence from Asia, Pacific and Africa

This research report was commissioned as a response to this precise knowledge gap. It analysed the gendered impacts of weather and climate and the gender-specific needs of climate information and services in Asia, Africa and Pacific
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Building Capacities for Forest Information and Monitoring Around the World

The project aimed to directly support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change REDD+ readiness process in 18 developing countries and to develop free tools for forest monitoring that might subsequently be used by other developing countries.
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