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  Adaptive policymaking for agriculture and water resources

  International Development Research Centre, 2005

  In 2005, IDRC provided CA $1,000,000 to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support a four-year research collaboration with TERI of India. These institutes will study the adaptation of agricultural communities that have experienced environmental change in the last two decades.
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  Project Idea Note: Pintadas Solar

  South South North, 2006

  The project takes place in the community of Pintadas, in the Bahia state of Brazil, which is suffering increasingly severe drought impacts linked to climate change.
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  Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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  Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)

  OSS aims to provide a platform for partnership between countries and organisations in the North and South to combat desertification and poverty in Africa.
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  ADB's Dams and Development E-paper: a reservoir of knowledge on dams

  Asian Development Bank, 2005

  Asian Development Bank's Dams and Development E-paper provides useful information and easy access to international policies, frameworks, principles, strategies, and case studies on dams. It seeks to generate discussion on the future of dam projects by making available to project planners and decision-makers materials on emerging issues and recent trends.
• Organisation

  Institute of Water and Environment (IWE)

  Based at Cranfields University, the institute provides practical and cost effective solutions to the challenges of water management for users, consumers and the environment within the context of susta
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  Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

  Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006

  This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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  Partnerships in the water and sanitation sector

  IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007

  This guide explores current thinking on partnerships with specific reference to the water and sanitation sector. It provides an overview of what is meant by partnerships and attempts to categorise them. It describes how to build and assess partnerships and examines some existing partnerships in the case studies.
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  Saving traditional knowledge from the ‘biopirates’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge about the use of natural resources is vital for conserving biodiversity. This knowledge is now under threat from intellectual property systems and globalisation. A new legal framework is needed to protect traditional knowledge.
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  Water rights and wrongs: a young people's summary of the United Nations Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: power, poverty, and the global water crisis

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007

  Aimed at young people, this booklet presents key points from the 2006 Human Development Report on water scarcity and its effects on human life. The report is user-friendly, using photographs and illustrations, stories from young people, basic data on the health effects of poor-quality water, and examples of efforts to bring water to poor communities.

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