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  The impact of water conflicts on pastoral livelihoods: the case of Wajir District in Kenya

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This report describes and analyses relationships between natural resource-based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods in Wajir District, Kenya in order to examine the extent to which livelihood opportunities are lost to people when they spend their time and resources managing water related conflicts.The study findings confirm the assumption that water is a critical resource that determines success
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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  Targeting and universalism in poverty

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Does social policy aim at benefiting the whole of society or just a select group? This paper argues that policy regimes tend to lie somewhere between being universally beneficial and targetted at a specific group.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  Influence of social institutions on inequality in China

  Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005

  This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China.
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  Freshwater and poverty reduction: serving people, saving nature - an economic analysis of the livelihood impacts of freshwater conservation initiatives

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  Using four case studies, this report analyses how better management of freshwater resources contributes to the improvement of livelihoods of poor local communities.
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  A rights-based approach to poverty: the South African experience

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper, presented at the International Conference: The Many Dimensions of Poverty (Brazil, 2005) uses a rights-based approach to address the problems of poverty.
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  Improving the analysis of food insecurity: food insecurity measurement, livelihoods approaches and policy; applications in FIVIMS

  Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems, 2004

  Food security analyses based on integrated livelihoods approaches have a much better potential to inform appropriate policies and interventions. Unfortunately, the local-level, disaggregated nature of these studies introduces difficulties in the scaling-up of findings and policies.
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  Climate change: biodiversity and livelihood impacts

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This publication considers the linkages between climate change (mitigation and adaptation) and biodiversity, and then relates these linkages to livelihoods, poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Methodological framework: an internal scoping report of the project strategies for increasing human resilience in Sudan: lessons for climate change adaptation in North and East Africa

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2005

  This paper details a project research methodology for assessing existing resilience-building strategies in Sudan to current climate change vulnerabilities.

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