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    Climate change in eastern and southern Africa: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
    In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is likely to decrease throughout most of the region, with the exception of eastern Africa, where annual rainfall is projected to increase.
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    Survival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

    Oxfam, 2008
    This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. 
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    Emissions trading, carbon financing and indigenous peoples

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008
    Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that work for them.
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    Forests and water

    Unasylva, FAO, 2008
    Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests.
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    Climate change, urban flooding, and the urban poor in Africa

    ActionAid International, 2006
    The UN Millenium summit committed to achieving ‘a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’ by 2020. However, in Africa – the world’s fastest urbanising region – climate change is threatening that goal.
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: an application to Kenya’s arid north

    Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006
    This paper sets out to develop an empirical forecasting model that can predict, with reasonable accuracy, the expected welfare impact of impending drought. This work is based on a set of regularly measured variables from communities in Kenya’s Arid North.
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
    This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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    Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

    KEMRI is the national body responsible for carrying out health science research in Kenya.

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