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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Climate Change’ – edition 22

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more
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    Farmers in a changing climate: does gender matter?

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    Is there a strong gender dimension to experiences with climate variability and coping strategies? This publication on the topic of food security in Andrha Pradesh, India finds that there is. It is a report on a study carried out by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), with financing from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
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    DAWN at COP10 People's Forum

    2011
    This webpage on the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) website provides access to over thirty downloadable audio recordings of presentations made by feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development.
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    Turning Down the Heat - Gender and Climate Change

    Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, 2009
    This short clip, filmed by Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development at the Conference of Parties (COP) 15 in Copenhagen, argues that both men and women need to be recognised in the climate change arena.
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    'Taller regional sobre genero y cambio climatico', Informe Final, 10 y 11 de mayo de 2010, Hotel Bugainvillea Heredia, Costa Rica

    Central American Commission for Environment and Development, 2010
    This document is in Spanish only.English title: ‘Regional Gender and Climate Change Workshop’, Final Report, 10-11 May 2010, Hotel Bugainvillea, Heredia, Costa Rica
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    Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

    BRIDGE, 2008
    What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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    Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007

    Africa Partnership Forum, 2007
    There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.
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    Participatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India

    ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003
    How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.
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    The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: Gender, Power and Decision-making in Climate Mitigation

    Routledge, 2002
    Since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997 and set legally-binding targets for signatories to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions; forest cultivation has been promoted as an important means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There has, however, been limited success.
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    WTO TRIPS Agreement

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.

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