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  Climate Change in the tropical Andes - Impacts and Climate Change in the tropical Andes - Impacts and consequences for glaciation and water resources consequences for glaciation and water resources Part I: The scientific basis

  2007

  This report provides the scientific basis regarding climate change and glaciers in the tropical Andes. It is meant to facilitate a discussion amongst policy makers and local stakeholders, who are in charge of implementing adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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  Water management adaptation measures: a contribution to adaptation to climate change in the Andes

  2009

  Lessons learned from nine case studies of experiences in water management and adaptation to climate change, implemented by member organizations of the Project on Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
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  The emerging policy for green economy and social development in Limpopo, South Africa

  United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012

  This paper evaluates the emerging green economy in South Africa, using ideas from the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods, which are intimately connected to ecological services many developing countries.
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  Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management. El Salvador

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2011

  The purpose of the indicator system is to assess the vulnerability and risk, using national-level indicators to facilitate access to relevant information to enable them to identify and propose effective measures for risk management, considering macroeconomics, social, institutional and technical aspects.
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  Impact of Climate Change on Rural Salvadorian Farmers

  The George Washington University Medical Center, USA, 2011

  The objective of this consultancy is to explore climate change impacts on food supply and security as well as on hazards that threaten subsistence farmers in El Salvador.
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  Planning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011

  The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.
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  Climate Change Financing and Aid Effectiveness: Ghana Case Study

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011

  This report places climate change financing within the wider development context, and in particular in relation to the Aid Effectiveness principles articulated in the Paris Declaration (PD) and the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA). It makes no judgement on whether the external finance is classified as Official Development Assistance or not.
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  Climate Risk and Adaptation Country Profile: Ghana

  World Bank, 2011

  This Country Profile is part of a series of 49 priority country briefs developed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the Global Support Program of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF).
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  Priority Framework for Action Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture

  2011

  The Priority Framework for Action builds on the strengths and comparative advantage of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) and, at the same time, specific actions are proposed considering the existing gaps and weaknesses. The Framework outlines 5 priority action areas: (i) Institutional and technical capacity for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in agricultur
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  Vulnerabilidad y adaptación al cambio climático de los pobladores rurales de la planicie costera central de El Salvador

  2007

  The purpose of this research was to develop, in conjunction with local stakeholders, a strategy on adaptation to climate change, based on an integrated assessment of the factors that determine the current climate vulnerability and future climate change in the territory located in the coastal plain in central El Salvador, between the towns of Zacatecoluca, Jiquilisco and Tecoluca.

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