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  Amazonia Security Agenda: Strengthening the water, energy, food and health security nexus in the region and beyond

  Global Canopy Programme, 2013

  Amazonia’s abundant natural resources underpin water, energy, food and health security for the people and economies of the region and far beyond. At the heart of this nexus of securities is water. So abundant in the region, but now under increasing threat as industrial and agricultural pollution increases, and extreme droughts reveal a once unthinkable water vulnerability.
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  Water Availability for Sustainable Energy Policy: Assessing cases in South and South East Asia

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2013

  The researchers conducted two separate studies in two different geographical locations, one in India and the other in Thailand, to demonstrate the impacts of water scarcity on long-term energy supplies up until 2050. Their findings reveal a potential conflict between the users of two resources (energy and water) and the subsequent negative impact on the overall development of these regions.
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  Contribution of Himalayan ecosystems to water, energy, and food security in South Asia: a nexus approach

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  In the face of climatic and other socioeconomic changes, most South Asian countries having large and growing population, limited land resources, and increasing water stress face a common challenge of how to grow more food with the same or less land, less water, and increased energy prices.
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  Tackling change: future-proofing water, agriculture, and food security in an era of climate uncertainty

  International Water Management Institute, 2013

  The International Water Management Institute, concerned at the potential impacts climate change is likely to have on access to and availability of water worldwide, have produced this paper exploring the range of strategies that will be necessary to future-proof water, agriculture, and food security in an era of climate uncertainty. The scale of the problem is laid out in the introduction.
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  How the people of Indonesia live with climate change and what communication can do

  BBC Media Action, 2013

  This report is part of a series from Climate Asia, worldwide study of people’s everyday experience of climate change in seven Asian countries – Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. The project surveyed 33,500 people across the seven countries, including 4,985 households in Indonesia where research was conducted from February to October 2012.
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  Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate Resilience

  International Rivers Network, 2013

  Produced by International Rivers, an international NGO working to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them, this guidebook is aimed at those working in and with riverine communities, with a particular focus on river resources and large infrastructure projects such as dams.
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  Decision support for water management for integrating aquaculture in small-scale irrigation systems: A case for the Chingale catchment in Southern Region of Malawi

  World Fish Center, 2013

  The Chinyanja Triangle is a trans-boundary, landlocked region that straddles Southern and Central Malawi, Tete Province of Mozambique and Eastern Province of Zambia.
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  Rural poverty and Food insecurity mapping at district level for improved agricultural water management in the Limpopo River Basin

  Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2013

  The purposes of this paper are to: 1) Identify areas in the Limpopo River Basin with high levels of rural poverty and food insecurity; 2) Identify areas where agricultural water management (AWM) interventions are taking place; and
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  Perceptions of water access in the context of climate change by rural households in the Seke and Murewa districts, Zimbabwe

  Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2013

  The objective of this study was to assess perceptions of rural household heads with regard to various aspects of water access and climate change, and to evaluate whether there were significant differences in perceptions of respondents from female-headed and male-headed households.
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  Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity of Women to Rural Water Supply in Ekiti State Nigeria

  SAVAP International, 2013

  This study used focused group discussions and interviews of 400 respondents randomly selected from the two senatorial districts of Ekiti State to assess the adaptive capacity of women folk to rural water accessibility as affected by climate change from January 2008 to January 2010.

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