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Global environmental outlook 5: environment for the future we want
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement.DocumentWater management adaptation measures: a contribution to adaptation to climate change in the Andes
2009Lessons learned from nine case studies of experiences in water management and adaptation to climate change, implemented by member organizations of the Project on Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.DocumentThe emerging policy for green economy and social development in Limpopo, South Africa
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012This paper evaluates the emerging green economy in South Africa, using ideas from the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods, which are intimately connected to ecological services many developing countries.DocumentCoping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.DocumentFarming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.DocumentClimate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal's Forest Sector: How can rural Communities benefit?
Intercooperation, 2009This paper outlines options for rural communities to participate in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the forest sector in Nepal.DocumentPlanning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.DocumentYouth vulnerabilities and adaptation: Exploring the impact of macro-level shocks on youth: 3F (food, fuel, financial) crisis and climate change in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam
Overseas Development Institute, 2011The main component of the study, for which research was undertaken from July 2010 to February 2011, focused on understanding how the 3F crisis impacted on different areas of young people’s lives and development, mediated through macro- and meso-level processes at the national level.DocumentSynergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity to climate change at the local level – a Ghana case study
REDD-net, 2012This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy opinions may impact LAC.DocumentClimate change, water and food security
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessing climate change impacts on water and agriculture.Pages