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Energizing Tanzania: Strategic consideration of possible interventions to support sustainable development and use of bioenergy in Tanzania 2015 - 2025
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015Shortage of biomass for cooking energy has been a concern in Tanzania for several decades and several interventions have been tried out (or: tested) in order to improve the situation. Over time, the concern has become more serious due to population growth, urbanisation and increased deforestation as well as increased knowledge of the socioeconomic impacts in the firewood and charcoal sector.DocumentEnvironmental income and rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis
World Development, 2014This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFORâs Poverty Environment Network (PEN). Environmental income accounts for 28% of total household income, 77% of which comes from natural forests.DocumentWhat does climate change adaptation mean for humanitarian assistance? Guiding principles for policymakers and practitioners
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Vulnerability to climate change is the result of complex interactions of various social, political, economic and environmental conditions. Humanitarian actions, while often having short-term and ‘neutral’ intentions, necessarily influence the development pathways that define people’s vulnerability to climate change.DocumentRethinking food aid in a chronically food-insecure region: Effects of food aid on local power relations and vulnerability patterns in Northwestern Nepal
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017The impacts of repeated food aid programmes on households’ livelihood strategies and capacity to adapt to stressors such as climate change were investigated in the chronically food-insecure district of Humla in Nepal, using food security as an entry point for analysing vulnerability.DocumentSocial protection or humanitarian assistance: Contested input subsidies and climate adaptation in Malawi
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017The purpose of this article is to assess factors that contributed to the apparent success of the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP) in the period 2005–15, and discuss the lessons that can be learned from this experience in relation to climate change adaptation.DocumentThe power of ‘Know-Who’: Adaptation to climate change in a changing humanitarian landscape in Isiolo, Kenya
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017This article examines adaptation to climate change in view of changing humanitarian approaches in Isiolo County, Kenya.DocumentSocial vulnerability and local adaptation in humanitarian response: The case of Pakistan
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017This article looks at the experiences of two areas hit hard by the 2010 mega-floods in Pakistan, one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one in Sindh.DocumentClimate change and disasters: institutional complexities and actors’ priorities for mitigation, adaptation and response
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017DocumentClimate change adaptation through humanitarian aid? Promises, perils and potentials of the ‘New Humanitarianism’
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017A major reform of the humanitarian sector is currently under way, focusing increasingly on the prevention of crises rather than on providing relief once crises have occurred. This article examines whether and how this new humanitarian approach can also improve people’s ability to adapt to climate change.DocumentCourting catastrophe? Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Humanitarian crises appear dramatic, overwhelming and sudden, with aid required immediately to save lives. Whereas climate change is about changing hazard patterns and crises are in reality rarely unexpected, with academic researchers and humanitarian and development organisations warning about possible risks for months before they take place.Pages