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  Cattle and climate in Africa: how climate variability has influenced national cattle holdings from 1961–2008

  PubMed Central, 2013

  The role of cattle in developing countries is as a source of high-quality food, as draft animals, and as a source of manure and fuel. Cattle represent important contribution to household incomes, and in drought prone areas they can act as an insurance against weather risk.
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  Pre-project: Climate change as an opportunity towards adaptive sustainable aquaculture (CADINAL)

  2013

  Cultured food fish currently accounts for nearly 50 % of the global consumption. India and Norway are the world’s second and seventh largest aquaculture producers respectively, thus aquaculture is considered to be a sector which provides immense opportunities in both adaptation and mitigation under climate change realm in both countries.
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  Review of support to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, REEEP - norad.no

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) was established after the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. REEEP is a public private partnership, registered as an NGO under Austrian law.
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  Contribution Analysis: Norwegian Embassy support to indigenous peoples in Brazil 2002 -2013

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to acquire knowledge and draw lessons about the nature, organisation and achievements of the Norwegian Indigenous Support Programme in Brazil (NISPB), and (b) to inform future strategies, policies and interventions in this area of development cooperation.
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  Assessing local preferences for payment formats in REDD+ interventions: A case study of the Ongo Community Forest

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  The government of Uganda has over time been actively engaged in ensuring the sustainable utilisation of its forestry resources. This has been undertaken by different players including the national forestry sector, forest-neighbouring communities and private individuals owning forested land.
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  Views and preferences for compensation under REDD+ in Tanzania: Kilosa pilot project case study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Since 2008, Tanzania has been working to create a national REDD+ strategy. Nine REDD pilot projects have been put in place in different areas of the country, with the main aim being to gain experience and learn more about what constitutes good practice for REDD+, in order to influence Tanzania’s national REDD strategy.
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  Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study

  BMC Public Health, 2014

  Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).
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  State of the rainforest 2014

  Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2014

  Destruction of the rainforest and other tropical forests continue on a dramatic scale in spite of unprecedented global attention to the issue of deforestation and the role of forests in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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  Agricultural interventions and investment options for climate change in drought and saline - flood prone regions of Bangladesh

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2014

  Rice is the staple food in Bangladesh and crucial for the food security in the country. The alluvial soil deposits, through an extensive river network across Bangladesh, have contributed to a fertile land with high rice productivity potential. However, the frequent occurrence of floods, salinity and drought has repeatedly threatened the food security especially in the rural areas.
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  Formative Mid - Term Review of the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) Program in the Amazon: Final report

  Scanteam, 2014

  This is a mid-term review of RFN's Amazon Program, financed by the Norwegian MFA with annual budgets of 30 mill NOK in 2012 - 2013 reduced to 25 mill NOK in 2014.

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