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  Assessing local preferences for payment formats in REDD+ interventions: A case study of the Ongo Community Forest

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  The government of Uganda has over time been actively engaged in ensuring the sustainable utilisation of its forestry resources. This has been undertaken by different players including the national forestry sector, forest-neighbouring communities and private individuals owning forested land.
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  The Women's Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN)

  The Women's Earth & Climate Action Network (formerly IWECI) is a solutions-based, multi-faceted effort established to engage women worldwide to take action as powerful stakeholders in climate change a
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  Credits where credit’s due: a guide to community-level carbon forestry project development

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2014

  This guide argues that forests are central to sustaining life on our planet. It is estimated that between 500 million and 1 billion smallholds manage agroforestry-based systems or rely on remnant forests to meet subsistence needs.
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  Meta-analysis of crop responses to conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014

  The aim of this study is to compare and combine the results from different conservation agriculture experiments using meta-analysis in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of the different studies.
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  Topic guide: ecosystem services

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  The purpose of this Topic Guide is to assemble a set of learning resources that will contribute to the development of the professional competence of DFID Advisers around the issue of ecosystem services and integrating this issue into project and programme design processes. The specific objectives are to:
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  A new market-based climate change solution achieving 2∘C and equity

  Wiley Online Library, 2014

  This opinion article argues that current climate change strategies seem increasingly incapable of averting planetary catastrophe.
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  Natural systems and climate change resilience in the Lower Mekong Basin: future directions for biodiversity, agriculture and livelihoods in a rapidly changing environment

  International Centre for Environmental Management, 2014

  This report finds that despite the diversity of livelihoods and ecosystems In the Lower Mekong Basin, most sectors’ resilience to climate change is dependent on health natural ecosystems.
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  Environmental migration and labor markets in Nepal

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  This discussion paper focuses on how migration impacts the labour markets of receiving communities in developing countries. 
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  Global water demand projections: past, present and future

  International Water Management Institute, 2014

  This research paper focuses on water demand projections (WDPs) which are widely used for future water resource planning. It argues that accurate WDPs can reduce waste or scarcity associated with overdevelopment or underdevelopment, respectively, of water resources.
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  Environmental impact assessment in sustainable water resources development: major issues of consideration

  Science, Technology and Arts Research Journal, 2014

  This paper argues that to bring more environmental integrity to water resources development, major challenges such as population pressure, climate change, planning and policies should be properly addressed.

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