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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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    Perfil Climático - El Salvador

    2009
    Document part of the 'Integration risks and opportunities of climate change into national development and programming in United Nations countries' Project. It presents a brief account of the country's vulnerability in the coastal and rural areas, as well as in the agriculture, health and energy sectors, including the impact on water resources and ecosystems. The original document is in Spanish.
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    Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity, such as crop failure, to highlight the social and political dimensions that are inhibiting progress.
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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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    Climate Change Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages on Regime Design, Maintenence, and Death

    2011
    Although climate linkages are prolific across various types of social organisation, this special issue focuses of the wide range of ways that international regimes are strategically linked to climate change politics. In recent years we noticed a marked increase in regime-level linkage politics seeping into both formal UNFCCC negotiations and side events.
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    The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
    A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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    Decision-making constraints on the implementation of viable disaster risk reduction projects: some perspectives from economics

    Laboratory for Social Science Research, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University, 2011
    This paper seeks to explain why progress has been so slow on the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects and programmes over the last decade. It explains that failure to implement cost-effective DRR projects may result from a breakdown of of decision-making at the individual, policy analyst and policymaker levels.
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    Climate change risk: a mitigation and adaptation agenda for Indian cities

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
    India is one of the more vulnerable and risk-prone countries in the world, but its population have learned to cope with a wide range of natural and human-made hazards. Rapid population growth, high densities, poverty and high differentials in access to housing, public services and infrastructure have led to an increase in vulnerability, especially in urban centers.
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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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    Forestry and REDD in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Africa’s forests for their high biodiversity and environmental benefits.

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