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  Rights-based rainforest protection Why securing the rights of forest peoples is the right way to save the forest

  2012

  The loss of the world’s rainforest has for decades been recognised as a serious, global environmental problem, both by rainforest nations and the international community. Still, 13 million hectares of tropical forest disappear every year. There is, thus, an urgent need for intensified efforts at the appropriate scale and with the right approach.
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  South-South REDD. A Brazil–Mozambique initiative for zero deforestation with pan-African relevance

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  A memorandum of understanding between the government of Mozambique through the Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Affairs (MICOA) and the Foundation for Sustainable Amazonas (FAS) signed in 2009 laid the ground for a multi-partner ollaborative initiative designated South–South REDD: A Brazil–Mozambique Initiative for Zero Deforestation with Pan-African Relevance.
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  Coping strategies for improved resilience of agro-pastoral communities: a case study of Monduli and Longido Districts

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2012

  Livestock and agriculture are identified as some of the sectors most vulnerable to climate change.
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  People in crises: tackling the root causes of famine in the Horn of Africa

  Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 2012

  In mid-2011 the world became witness to a widespread food crisis in the Horn of Africa, which has escalated into acute shortages of food notably in the regions of southern Somalia, northern Kenya, southeastern Ethiopia and Djibouti. The U.N.
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  Input subsidies and improved maize varieties in Malawi: -What can we learn from the impacts in a drought year?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013

  After six years with a large scale Farm Input Subsidy Program that enhanced national and household food security high costs resulted in a cut-back of the program in 2011/12 at the same time as the country
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  Climate change, its impacts and possible community based responses in Bangladesh - Bangla version

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2012

  This paper aims to summarise current international and national literature on climate change and put it into language which will be more easily understood by development practitioners in Bangladesh and elsewhere.  This version is in Bangla.Specifically, the paper is divided into the following sections:
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  Potential effects of climate change on crop pollination

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  Crop production must meet the demands of feeding a growing population in an increasingly degraded environment amid uncertainties resulting from climate change. There is a pressing need to adapt farming systems to meet these challenges.
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  Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011

  The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
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  Mapping of Norwegian civil society organizations working on energy and sustainable development

  ECON Pöyry, 2011

  This study provides a mapping of Norwegian CSOs working on energy and development issues in developing countries and an overview assessment of how the CSOs fit with the priorities of the Norwegian Government’s Clean Energy for Development Initiative.
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  China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

  ECON Pöyry, 2011

  This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.

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