Sub Saharan Africa
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Risk-sharing to combat climate change: a strategy for West Africa
- ( M. Niasse / International Development Research Centre , 2007)
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This paper lays the foundations of a regional climate change adaptation strategy based on the risk-sharing approach (i.e. sharing the burden of the development and implementation of response measur...
- Effectively dealing with climate change in developing countries
- ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , 2007)
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The impact of climate change will have a detrimental effect on the livelihoods and survival of billions of people. This book provides an overview of the concerns and needs of four regions: Africa, ...
- Helping farmers learn from each other: the Lead Farmer project in Malawi
- ( Development Fund, Norway , 2008)
- Food insecurity is one of the major threats that the people of Malawi face. 90% of Malawian farmers are smallholders who face a host of challenges in their farming activities, including:...
- Will climate change lead to violent conflict?
- ( D. Smith;J. ViVekananDa / SIDA Studies , 2008)
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Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Chang...
- Poor left to fend for themselves in the new climate change reality
- ( ActionAid International , 2006)
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The UN Millenium summit committed to achieving ‘a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’ by 2020. However, in Africa – the world’s faste...
- Community Risk Assessment: methodologies and case studies
- ( ProVention Consortium , 2007)
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This webpage presents an extensive collection of methodologies and case studies on Community Risk Assessment, collected and analysed by Cape Town University, Ben Wisner and the ProVention Consortiu...
- Lessons learned from community-based climate change adaptation projects in South-Eastern Africa
- ( Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2007)
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Across south-eastern Africa, organisations are developing and implementing projects specifically designed to support adaptation to climate change, many at the community level. This paper reports on...
Africa's urban poor are struggling to cope with climate-induced flooding
- ( ActionAid International , 2007)
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Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, i...
- Supporting small scale farmers to adapt to anticipated climate change
- ( South South North , 2006)
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The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change and to enhance their incomes.
... - Impacts of climate change in East Africa
- ( M. Case / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2006)
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This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change i...
