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    Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptations to climate change and variability: the case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa

    2009
    This report outlines how climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts in South Africa. It states that rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts.
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    Climate policy integration: towards operationalization

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
    The climate change debate raises the issue of the often identified requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate “mainstreaming” or climate policy integration (CPI). This paper explores the need for CPI, the state of current understanding, and proposals for integration of climate policy at the national policy scale.
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    Climate change and the threat to African food security

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Sub-Saharan Africa is currently the most food-insecure region in the world. Climate change could aggravate the situation further unless adequate measures are put in place.
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    Global Climate Network (GCN)

    The Global Climate Network (GCN) is a collaboration of independent research and policy organisations focusing on climate change issues.
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    Children on the frontline: children and young people in Disaster Risk Reduction

    Plan, 2009
    Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean Tsunami were women or children under the age of 15.
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    Financing the cost of climate change: two perspectives on who, what and how

    Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development, 2008
    This report is broken into two parts: The World Bank’s climate change agenda: bridging the gaps or widening the North-South divide? and Financing adaptation to climate change in Malawi. The document gathers and analysesinformation on major climate change and finance initiatives by the World Bank.
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    The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi

    Oxfam, 2009
    Climate change in Malawi interacts with environmental degradation, notably deforestation, and it is women who suffer most. Women have multiple roles as farmers and bringers of water and firewood and so depend very directly on natural resources. At the same time their position in society means that generally they have less access to income and credit and little or no voice in decision making.
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    Commission on Climate Change and Development (CCDC)

    The Commission on Climate Change and Development is made up of 13 renown individuals from different regions and disciplines.
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    Climate change vulnerability mapping for Southeast Asia

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2009
    This report examines which sub-national areas (regions/districts/provinces) in Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to climate change impacts. The assessment involves overlaying climate hazard maps, sensitivity maps, and adaptive capacity maps according to the vulnerability assessment framework of the United Nations’ Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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    Closing the gaps: disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in developing countries

    Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2009
    The International Commission on Climate Change and Development examines adaptation to climate change and its links with development and disaster risk reduction.

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