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  Assessing the costs of climate change and adaptation in South Asia

  Asian Development Bank, 2014

  This report predicts significant economic losses in South Asia as the region faces the challenge of achieving and sustaining rapid economic growth to reduce poverty and attain other Millennium Development Goals in an era of accentuated risks posed by global climate change.
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  Learning the hard way? Adapting to climate risk in Tanzania

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  We use recent panel data on Tanzanian farm households to investigate how previous exposure to weather shocks affects the impact of a current shock. Specifically, we investigate the impact of droughts on agricultural outcomes and investments in children’s health, measured by their short- and long-term nutritional status.
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  The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report: What's in it for Africa?

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This executive summary highlights that Africa’s climate is already changing and the impacts are already being felt. It argues that climate change will have widespread impacts on African society and Africans’ interaction with the natural environment. These include an effect on food security, water availability and human health.
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  Perceptions of climate change and adaptation to microclimate change and variability among smallholder farmers in Mhakwe Communal Area, Manicaland province, Zimbabwe

  Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014

  This study seeks to assess smallholder farmers' perceptions of climate change and also their adaptive strategies at the microscale in Mhakwe Communal Area in Zimbabwe. The study was carried out using a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. A sample of 43 smallholder farmers was selected.
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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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  Combining satellite data and models to assess vulnerability to climate change and its impact on food security in Morocco

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  This journal article analyses satellite and socioeconomic data to explore the relationship between food and wood demand and supply, expressed in terms of net primary production (NPP), in Morocco. A vulnerability index is defined as the ratio of demand to supply as influenced by population, affluence, technology and climate indicators.
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  What climate change means for farmers in Africa: A triptych review middle panel: Introductional matters and consequences of global warming for African farmers

  African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2014

  This paper deals with the consequences of climate change for farmers in Africa, including increasing temperatures and changing rainfall, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide content and impacts on agricultural production.
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  Mapping drought patterns and impacts: a global perspective.

  International Water Management Institute, 2009

  The study examines the global pattern and impacts of droughts through mapping several drought-related characteristics - either at a country level or at regular grid scales. It appears that arid and semi-arid areas also tend to have a higher probability of drought occurrence.
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  Assessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2012

  The  study  site  of  Fogera  Woreda  is  one  of  106  woredas of  the  Amhara National  Regional  State  and  is  located  in  the  South  Gondar  Zone,  about  65  km  north of the  Regional  capital  Bahir  Dar  town,  on  
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  Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2013

  Payments  for  ecosystem  services (PES)  provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.

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