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  Contribution Analysis: Norwegian Embassy support to indigenous peoples in Brazil 2002 -2013

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to acquire knowledge and draw lessons about the nature, organisation and achievements of the Norwegian Indigenous Support Programme in Brazil (NISPB), and (b) to inform future strategies, policies and interventions in this area of development cooperation.
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  The environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.
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  Payments for nature values: market and non-market instruments

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  A central element in the international negotiations on resource mobilization under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is to broaden the basis for financing the implementation of the convention. The issue of payments for nature values as resource mobilization is at the center of the controversy in these negotiations.
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  Evaluation Cooperation. Rainforest Foundation Norway. Forum Kerjasama LSM Papua (FOKER). Papua and West Papua Provinces, Indonesia

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

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  Fact sheet. Project: Analysis of the Impacts of Urban Land Use and Climate Change on Coastal Forest Ecosystem and Management (IULUCC - CFM)

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  Coastal forests are among the hotspots of biodiversity and therefore critical for conservation in Tanzania. However, most of the previous climate change mitigation efforts in Tanzania focused on participatory forest management in rural areas and did not address the major driving force of deforestation and forest degradation from urban areas.
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  Fact sheet. Project: Comparative study of incentive options for forest - based emissions reduction, biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement; Case of Kilwa and Lindi Districts

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  The project entails a comparative study on incentive options for forest-based emissions reduction, biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement, comparing villages with REDD+/PFM (Participatory Forest Managment) and without REDD+/PFM and also comparing each set of villages over time.
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  Fact sheet. Project: Climate Change, Non - Timber Forest Products and Livelihood of Forest Dependent Communities - Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation in Tanzania

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  Over 20 million Tanzanians depend on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) for their livelihood, but the extent to which NTFPs and community livelihoods are vulnerable to climate change is not well established. The coping strategies of these communities have not been fully documented either.
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  WWF Mara River Basin Management Initiative, Kenya and Tanzania. Phase III - final evaluation report

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013

  The scarce water resources of the transboundary Mara River Basin (13,750 km2), in Kenya and Tanzania are essential to more than one million people, multiple water uses and the world-famous Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem and its economically very important tourism industry.
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  Wildlife-human interactions: from conflict to coexistence in sustainable landscapes. A cooperative research project between India and Norway

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2011

  Reports on a project which sought to understand the dynamics of wildlife human interactions in India and Norway (in a sample of multiuse landscapes) and to develop mechanisms of coexistence suitable to the countries. The project focussed on species that regularly come into conflict with humans, but which reflect the diversity of forms these conflicts can take.
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  High mountain glaciers and climate change: challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation

  Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2010

  Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in water supplies.

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