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  Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: Integrating Local and External Knowledge

  SustainAbility, 2012

  Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to climate change impacts including sea level rise, invasive species, ocean acidification, changes in rainfall patterns, increased temperatures, and changing hazard regimes including hurricanes, floods and drought.
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  Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. Phase 2 report 1

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2012

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the fertility of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only 10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. End report phase 1

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2012

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the fertility of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Progress report February 2011

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2011

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the quality of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only 10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Knowledge and brokerage in REDD+ policy making: A Policy Networks Analysis of the case of Tanzania

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012

  As various countries are preparing their national REDD+ strategies, balancing different types of knowledge and interests for legitimate and effective policies has become a primary, pressing challenge.
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  Norway & Tanzania: partners in development - booklet from Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania

  2012

  Norway and Tanzania have been partners for 50 years. Political commitment, social, cultural, academic and commercial interactions have created links and relations that go far beyond the traditional development cooperation.
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  More complex conflict drivers than environment and climate

  Life and Peace Institute, 2012

  While there is a connection between climate variability and conflict in Sudan, the effects are played out in interaction with other conflict-promoting factors as is clearly seen in Darfur. Vulnerability to environmental hazards has generally increased, and growing competition between different livelihood groups promotes conflict as well as environmental degradation.
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  Brazil’s Role in Environmental Governance: Analysis of Possibilities for Increased Brazil-Norway Cooperation

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2011

  This report examines the role played by Brazil in connection with certain international negotiations, such as the climate negotiations and the CBD. It identifies the driving factors that have influenced environmental politics and standards in Brazil, and take note of conflicts that must be discussed when Norway is seeking expanded cooperation with Brazil.
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  Management for adaptation to climate change. Mid-term review of a project implemented by Total Land Care, Malawi

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

  The Management for Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project in Malawi is implemented by Total Land Care (TLC) with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi and a 5 years time frame from 2008 to mid 2013.
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  Corruption and REDD+: Identifying risks amid complexity

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2012

  Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should focus particularly on three corruption risk areas: land grabbing and tenure rights, fraud in monitoring, evaluation and reporting, and elite capture of REDD+ revenues.

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