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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change agriculture and food security, Climate change poverty and vulnerability

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  The climate and development challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: options for climate-resilient, low-carbon development

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2013

  This comprehensive report by the Inter-American Development Bank seeks to assess the physical and economic impacts of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as adaptation options available. Additionally, the report examines how, and at what cost, the region can reduce its carbon footprint to a level consistent with global stabilisation goals.
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  Zero carbon Britain: rethinking the future

  Centre for Alternative Technology, 2013

  This report explores how Britain can achieve Carbon neutrality. Building upon the groundwork laid by the Zero Carbon Britain project over the last six years, the authors incorporate the latest developments in science and technology, plus more detailed research in two main areas: balancing highly variable energy supply and demand; and the nutritional implications of a low carbon diet.
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  New pathways to resistance: outcomes of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa research and capacity building program 2006-2012

  International Development Research Centre, 2012

  This report presents a brief and interactive summary of the Climate Change in Africa research and capacity program’s chief contributions.
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  Climate Change, growth, and Poverty in Ethiopia

  2013

  Climate change is now a global phenomenon with growth, poverty, food security, and stability implications. Because of significant dependence on the agricultural sector for production, employment, and export revenues, Ethiopia is seriously threatened by climate change, which contributes to frequent drought, flooding, and rising average temperatures.
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  Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience

  World Bank, 2013

  Focusing on the risk of climate change on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, and South Asia, this World Bank report provides a scientific analysis of the likely impacts on agriculture, water resources and coastal vulnerability that will be felt under various warming scenarios up to an increase of 4°C.
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  Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India.
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  Rural households in a changing climate

  World Bank, 2013

  This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature.
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  A critical analysis of climate change factors and its projected future values in Delta state, Nigeria

  Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013

  This study analyses climate change factors (temperature and rainfall) and their projected future values in the Delta state, Nigeria. A variety of crops such as maize, yam and cassava produced in Delta state depend on rainfall for their optimum performance. Therefore, decreasing and/or irregular rainfall patterns threaten food security in the state.
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  Malaria and agriculture: a global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  Roughly half of the world's population lives at risk of contracting malaria, a disease which disproportionately affects the poor. As such, farming households are particularly vulnerable; malaria is therefore an intimate link between poverty, agriculture and health.
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  From vulnerability to resilience: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in Niger

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011

  For decades, Nigerien farmers cleared their fields of native trees and shrubs, exposing their crops to the fierce Sahelian winds. However, the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), in combination with other improved soil and water conservation practices, has helped to reverse this trend.

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