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  Assessing drought displacement risk for Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somali pastoralists

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  This study represents an initial attempt to assess patterns of displacement related to droughts in selected countries of the Horn of Africa, specifically the border regions of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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  The Solar Energy Centre: an approach to village scale power supply . The Solar Transition pilot project in Kenya

  University of Oslo, 2014

  Access to electricity has a positive impact on a wide range of factors influencing rural communities, from improved health, to access to communication and information, to better educational facilities, economic prosperity and improved standard of living.
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  Does climate change aggravate gender inequalities? Empirical assessment from South India

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2014

  The effects of climate change are unequally distributed between female and male gender in agrarian communities, particularly in developing countries. The agrarian regions of South India offer some representative examples where extreme events such as drought and floods influence gender inequalities.
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  Socio-ecological vulnerability assessment of flood and saline-prone region in rural Bangladesh

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2014

  The agrarian population in Bangladesh is ranked by many studies to be of the most vulnerable in the world due to the poor socio-economic features, the unique geophysical location and the high exposure to climate change effects.
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  Climate change and vulnerability in Bangladesh

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2014

  It is predicted that climate change will aggravate the presence of sudden (e.g. cyclones, floods etc.) and chronic (e.g. drought, erosion) hazards to agrarian communities in Bangladesh. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001) the exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate change determines the degree of vulnerability for a social or ecological system.
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  National REDD Policy Project Tanzania. End of project review. Final report

  The Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, 2014

  The Norwegian Government funded REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania is creating significant positive results across Tanzania. Along with the research project on climate change and a selection of pilot projects, the REDD+ Policy Project, implemented by Institute of Resources Assessment (IRA-UDSM) has helped lay the foundation for Tanzania’s future REDD activities.
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  Impact assessment of rural electrification

  2013

  Norway has for many years supported Mozambique’s efforts to increase the level of access to electricity  in rural areas.
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  Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems

  2014

  Background Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on maize and sorghum production in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a case study of the role of genetic resources and seed systems in adapting to climatic stress from the semi-arid agroecological zone in Tanzania. Results
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  Amazonian policy and politics, 2003-13: deforestation, hydropower and biofuels

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  In the period 2003-13 Brazil experienced important economic and political developments: it became a much more relevant international player; its economy entered the world’s top ten; and society became more politically active and expressed its complaints more aggressively. Amazonian policy and the politics of the period developed in this context, and three issues played a central role.
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  Fact sheet. Project: P romotion and Intensification of Fruit Trees in Agricultural Farm Lands for Mitigation and Adaption to Climate Change

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  The main objective of this strategic intervention is to reduce the impacts of climate change and land degradation on rural farm lands by intensifying the production of fruit trees. This will generate income and help farmers adapt to climate change.

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