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  Thirsty, hungry and no power? : African resources in a global world

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014

  Water, food and energy are fundamental to African development. However, several crucial issues need to be addressed. Are African resources used to meet African needs or are they being exploited to satisfy the needs of other actors facing food and energy insecurity?
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  Changing Small Island Developing States: A space perspective on environmental change in the Caribbean

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2014

  This publication focuses on high-resolution imagery processed to illustrate the impacts on Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean of climate change, sea-level rise, coral bleaching, uncontrolled urban and tourism development, severe deforestation and selected natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and landslides.
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  The environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.
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  The extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector.
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  Technological catch-up and indigenous institutional infrastructures in latecomer natural resource-related industries: an exploration of the role of EMBRAPA in Brazil’s soybeans and forestry-based pulp and paper industries

  International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014

  This article reports the results of an exploratory study on the role of indigenous institutional infrastructures in the accumulation of world-leading innovative capabilities (technological catch-up) in natural resource-related industries in the context of developing/emerging economies.
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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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  Gendered dimensions of land and rural livelihoods: the case of new settler farmer displacement at Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe

  Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012

  The biofuel boom has become a core issue in Zimbabwean land and development debates. Biofuels require large tracts of land for production; and the land acquisition programmes by the various state, non-state actors and individuals have been termed ‘land grabbing’.
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  Appraisal of the programme document ‘Promoting transboundary collaboration in the Central Albertine Rift in order to reduce unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and contribute to economic development’.

  2013

  Appraisal of a programme document Submitted by the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) to the Norwegian Embassy in Kampala 2013.
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  Survey on Women Livelihoods in the Niger-Delta: an overview of women's economic activities in oil producing communities in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers states

  2010

  The economic crisis in the Niger Delta has been exacerbated by increased exploitation of oil and gas resources. In addition to suffering the effects of the economic crisis, women in the Niger Delta are victims of gender-based discrimination. They are underrepresented in politics, education and economics, including employed labour in the oil industry.
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  Evolving customary institutions in the Drylands: an opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014

  Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. This paper looks at why the authority and capacity of customary natural resource management institutions has been weakened, and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience.

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