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Adaptation in Africa: the global failure to deliver on funding
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008Africa's water resources, biodiversity, forests, agricultural systems and the health of its people face immense pressures from current and future climate change. The authors of this paper argue that Africa is poorly equipped to adapt and therefore the international commitment to support African nations in coping with climate change is justified.DocumentClimate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2008The paper identifies the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor in India and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation.DocumentHow vulnerable are Bangladesh's indigenous people to climate change?
2008This working paper compares the vulnerability to climate change of Bangladesh’s indigenous people with that of the Bengali population of Bangladesh in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Analysis of this study is based on distinguishing between individual and spatial vulnerabilities to climate change.DocumentClimate Justice for Realisation of the MDGs: Southern Perspectives and Voices. A Report of the Seventh Annual Regional Meeting of OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi
Open Archive Initiative, OneWorld South Asia, 2008This is a report of the 7th Annual Regional meeting of One World South Asia (OWSA). The purpose of the 2008 meeting was to establish the relevance of climate change and development. The document underlines the need for enhanced Southern participation and activism on climate change and development and explores new avenues for engagement on the subject.DocumentMicro-level analysis of farmers’ adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa
2007This discussion paper is based on micro-level analysis of adaptation that focuses on tactical decisions farmers make in response to seasonal variations in climatic, economic, and other factors in Southern Africa. The document is based on a cross-section database of three countries: South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.DocumentDisaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: closing the gap
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008There is significant overlap between the practice and theory of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. However, there is limited coherence and convergence in institutions, organisations and policy frameworks.OrganisationCommunity Based Adaptation Exchange (CBA-X)
CBA-X is a shared online resource designed to bring together and grow the Community Based Adaptation community.DocumentThe impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia
2008This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. It provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the possible implications that these strategies may have on farm productivity.DocumentRe-framing resilience: a symposium report
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009The concept of resilience is becoming more important in academic, policy and popular debate. Resilience thinking is valuable in highlighting the complex dynamics of social-economic-environmental systems. This is increasingly important in a world where threats such as climate change, epidemic disease and fluctuating markets are present.DocumentWhy have forestry activities not been included in strategies to cope with climate change?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009Throughout international negotiations to tackle climate change, some environmental groups have opposed including forestry activities in measures to reduce carbon emissions.Pages