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  Rural Poverty Report 2011

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011

  Published every ten years, IFAD's report provides a comprehensive view of rural poverty, much needed now to put into proper perspective the policy shifts being brought about by increasing urbanisation.
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  Uncertainty Quantity Certification and Reduction in Urban Water Systems (UWS) Modelling: Evaluation Report

  2012

  This report has evaluated existing methods applied in a number of related fields for quantifying and reducing uncertainty in models that may be applied in Urban Water Systems. Numerical models may be applied to address one of the key aims of the PREPARED project, and aid in optimising the use of existing water supply and sanitation systems.
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  Feeling Stressed: Integrating Climate Adaptation with Other Priotities in South Africa

  2012

  In response to the growing concern over the expected effects of climate change, a growing number of people are exploring how communities have and might respond to climate as one of a number of interacting stresses.
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  Making Rio 2012 Work: Setting the Stage for Global Economic, Social and Ecological Renewal

  Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2011

  The world faces old and new security challenges that are more complex than our multilateral and national institutions are currently capable of managing.
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  Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

  Science Direct, 2010

  This paper explores the role of markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in facilitating climate change adaptation of local communities in the Congo Basin.
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  Haiti: ‘a gathering storm’ - climate change and poverty

  Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2009

  This report gives an insight into how poor people are experiencing climate change in Haiti, already one of the poorest countries in the world, and what challenges they are currently facing, and will continue to face in the future.
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  Community-based adaptation: Enhancing community adaptive capacity in Druadrua Island, Fiji

  Wiley Online Library, 2010

  This paper describes the process and outcomes of a pilot Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) project on Druadrua Island, Fiji. From the project’s achievements, the author asserts that CBA enhances the capacity of local communities to adapt to change.
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  CARE International Climate Change Brief: Adaptation and Food Security

  CARE International, 2011

  Food insecurity is a growing concern throughout the developing world, particularly for poor women and children. CARE understands that achieving food security for all will require a coordinated effort that incorporates preventive, promotional, protective and transformative measures. This brief outlines CARE’s understanding of the challenge and our response.
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  Policy misfits, climate change and cross-scale vulnerability in coastal Africa: how development projects undermine resilience

  Science Direct, 2010

  Coastal social ecological systems in eastern Africa are subject to a range of environmental, social and economic changes, and the impacts of climate change are likely to further exacerbate their vulnerabilities. This paper presents an analysis based on local perceptions of recent changes at four sites in coastal Tanzania and Mozambique.
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  CARE International Climate Change Brief: Adaptation, gender and women’s empowerment

  2010

  Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than others to manage the crisis.

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