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    Promoting resource efficiency along the supply chain of key sectors in South Asia: options and opportunities

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are engines of economic growth, providing livelihoods to large populations in South Asian countries. However, over exploitation of natural resources can severely impact sustainability of industrial production systems.
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    Evidence of impact: Climate-smart agriculture in Africa

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014
    Agriculture across Africa must undergo a significant transformation to meet the multiple challenges of climate change, food insecurity, malnutrition, poverty and environmental degradation. The case studies described here are just some of the climate-smart agricultural practices that already exist in Africa.
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    Promoting resource efficiency along the supply chain of key sectors: stimulating knowledge partnership in South Asia

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    Rapid development coupled with high population growth in South Asia has led to unsustainable use of natural resources resulting in serious environmental and social problems. These problems may constraint growth
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    Exploring and developing environmental economic policies for China in the new era

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The environmental economic policies are mechanisms and regimes that regulate and influence people’s behaviors of making or eliminating pollution and ecological degradation aiming at socio-economic sustainable development by employing such economic leverages as financing, taxation, pricing, credit, investment, and market instruments based on the theories of environmental economics and mark
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    Poverty environment nexus: an investigation of linkage and policy implications

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008
    There is a clear connection between environment and poverty and it can hardly be over emphasised. The more visible environmental problems are mostly seen in the case of exhaustive resources which are in constant danger of depletion from excessive use, particularly in a developing country such as Bangladesh.
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    Application of the Water Poverty Index at the districts of Yellow River Basin

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011
    As one assessment method of the water resources, Water Poverty Index has become an available tool in water resources management for it simply calculation process, comprehensive understanding of the results. This paper introduces the concept of the Water Poverty Index, and applies it at these districts of Yellow River Basin by using equal weightings methodology.
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    Climate change and conflict:conflict-sensitive climate change adaptation in Africa

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    In preparation for COP17 (17th Conference of the Parties) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in Durban, held a two-day expert seminar to identify issues and recommendations for ensuring that adaptation to climate change is conflict-sensitive.
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    Evidence to support climate change adaptation in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2015
    In southern Africa, the predicted 2°C rise in temperature will destabilise farming systems. Coping mechanisms, livelihood strategies and the cost of adaptation options for smallholder farmers are not sufficiently understood in the region because the majority of research is focused on ecological assessment and identifying the vulnerability of households.
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    The status of agricultural water use, access, and productivity in the Limpopo Basin — opportunities for poverty alleviation

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    The Limpopo River Basin is home to 14,000,000 people, at least half of whom live in rural areas. Over ten million South Africans live in the basin - nearly 25% of the national population. The remaining population live in Botswana - one million people, nearly 60% of the national population - Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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    Policies for enhanced livestock productivity and wealth creation in a changing climate

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly. Agriculture and livestock systems are among the most climate sensitive economic sectors. Many of the climate change predictions suggest that African livestock will be damaged by as early as 2020.

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