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Building adaptive capacity to climate change - SFLP

Policies to sustain livelihoods and fisheries










FAO. 2007. Building adaptive capacity to climate change. Policies to sustain livelihoods and fisheries. New Directions in Fisheries. A Series of Policy Briefs on Development Issues. No. 08. Rome, FAO. 12pp.


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