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    Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
    How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date?
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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    Population: one planet, too many people?

    Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
    Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter and energy in the context of an increasing population?
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    Centre for Social Protection (CSP)

    The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Re-framing resilience: a symposium report

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The 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.
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    Credibility crunch: food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders

    Oxfam, 2008
    The year 2008 is halfway to the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Despite some progress, this article argues that they will not be achieved if current trends continue.
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    Beyond any drought: root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economic and social forces as well as the impacts of highly variable rainfall.
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    Project Idea Note: Pintadas Solar

    South South North, 2006
    The project takes place in the community of Pintadas, in the Bahia state of Brazil, which is suffering increasingly severe drought impacts linked to climate change.
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    Adaptation to climate change by small-scale Rooibos tea farmers in Wupperthal and the Suid Bokkeveld areas of the Western and Northern Cape

    South South North, 2006
    The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change and to enhance their incomes.

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