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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Using time-to-event analysis to complement hierarchical methods when assessing determinants of photographic detectability during camera trapping

  2013

  Camera trapping, paired with analytical methods for estimating occupancy, abundance and other ecological parameters, can yield information with direct consequences for wildlife management and conservation. Although ecological information is the primary target of most camera trap studies, detectability influences every aspect from design to interpretation.
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  Water Scarcity in Bangladesh. Transboundary Rivers, Conflict and Cooperation

  2013

  It is often assumed that transboundary water systems are potential sources of conflict that can exacerbate political, social, and economic tensions and cause disputes concerning the distribution, use and management of water.
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  Pakistan’s Population Prospects

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011

  Pakistan’s future is closely tied to the fate of its mushrooming population. What must Pakistan do to produce a favourable demographic outcome for itself – and why does this constitute such a formidable challenge?
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  Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011

  The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
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  Rural development in Swat, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post-conflict contexts

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

  In Pakistan, the Norwegian Embassy is supporting several international and local NGOs as well as several UN agencies in humanitarian and development activities in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including Swat.
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  Review of and recommendations for Norwegian support to good governance in Pakistan

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  A Governance review including political economy analysis of Pakistan with the main focus being on overall power relations at the national, provincial and local levels (particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK)) . The overall analysis addresses key sectors of Norwegian development cooperation with Pakistan including:
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  Gender review: Royal Norwegian Embassy Pakistan

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  In 2007 Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) adopted an action plan for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation (GEAP). The purpose of this gender review is to strengthen the efforts of the Norwegian embassy in Pakistan in particular to plan, implement, monitor, and report on how issues are promoted in programmes and in the policy dialogue with partners.
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  International responses to Pakistan’s water crisis: opportunities and challenges

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2010

  Pakistan faces a multidimensional water crisis that claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. This paper examines the potentials for the international community to help Pakistan to overcome this crisis, and makes recommendations to both the Pakistani government and other interested parties.
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  Workshop on livelihood, security and development in post conflict Swat, NWFP, Pakistan

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This paper highlights the discussions and findings of a workshop held in Norway which aimed to better understand the situation that led to the conflict in Malakand Division, Pakistan.

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