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    Micro-level analysis of farmers' adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    Adaptation to climate change involves changes in agricultural management practices in response to changes in climate conditions. It often involves a combination of various individual responses at the farm-level and assumes that farmers have access to alternative practices and technologies available in the region.
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    Informing and involving farmers in Benin

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    In rural Benin, adapting to climate change will depend on improving farmers' access to information and actively involving them in decision-making. How can farmers access information that would enable them to plant and to harvest on time under such variable conditions? How can they be involved in the information gathering process and in developing measures to address climatic upheaval?
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    The Glacier Trust, Water resources management for Nepali hill farmers

    Water Resources Management: The Glacier Trust is working with Practical Action in Nepal to build the resilience of subsistence mountain communities to adapt to climate change.
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    Local voices, global choices: for successful disaster risk reduction (DRR). A collection of case studies about community-centre partnerships for DRR

    ProVention Consortium, 2009
    Local Voices Global Choices is an interagency initiative supported by Action aid, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Global Network of CSOs for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), International federation of the Red Cross, Oxfam, Practical Action, ProVention Consortium, Save the Children, and Tearfund.This report contains a number of case studies from around the world, which highlight what can be achiev
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    Community-based adaptation to climate change bulletin. A summary of the third international workshop on community-based adaptation to climate change

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009
    The Third International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 18-24 February 2009. The event was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the RING Alliance of Policy Research Organisations.
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    Community-Based Adaptation. A UNDP/GEF Project, in partnership with the GEF/SGP (http://www.undp-adaptation.org/projects/websites/i)

    The Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) programme supports community-driven climate change adaptation projects through small-scale grants and leverages lessons emerging from projects to catalyze change i
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    Implementing climate change adaptation in Nepal, WWF

    Some of the poorest communities are vulnerable to climate change impacts as they are largely dependent on natural resources for food, water and livelihoods.
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    Climate proofing development projects assessment report for two community-level projects in southern Honduras

    Eldis Community, 2009
    Climate change affects poor people in particular, because of their weak adaptive capacities. Development projects of all kinds can strengthen or weaken those capacities and at the same time, they can influence greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore important to evaluate the impacts of development projects on adaptive capacities and climate change mitigation.
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    Trade and climate change

    World Trade Organization, 2009
    Greenhouse gas emissions which are the major contributors to climate change are on the increase in both industrialised and developing countries. This paper indicates key linkages between trade and climate change and reviews how their respective policies interact. Questions are posed as to how trade and climate change can be mutually supportive.
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    Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management

    International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, 2009
    The climate has always presented a challenge to those whose livelihoods depend on it. For poor people, a variable climate presents a risk that can critically restrict options and so limit development. This document looks at the risk assessment tools such as index insurance that can be used to help vulnerable people deal with climate change.

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