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  Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal's Forest Sector: How can rural Communities benefit?

  Intercooperation, 2009

  This paper outlines options for rural communities to participate in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the forest sector in Nepal.
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  Planning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011

  The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.
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  Youth vulnerabilities and adaptation: Exploring the impact of macro-level shocks on youth: 3F (food, fuel, financial) crisis and climate change in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam

  Overseas Development Institute, 2011

  The main component of the study, for which research was undertaken from July 2010 to February 2011, focused on understanding how the 3F crisis impacted on different areas of young people’s lives and development, mediated through macro- and meso-level processes at the national level.
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  Synergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity to climate change at the local level – a Ghana case study

  REDD-net, 2012

  This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy opinions may impact LAC.
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  Climate change, water and food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessing climate change impacts on water and agriculture.
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  Environmental change and maize innovation in Kenya: exploring pathways in and out of maize

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009

  Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to explore differential responses to climate change.
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  Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal

  International Water Management Institute, 2010

  This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal (from household livelihoods to national food security), and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process. SectionI, Background, provides background information on Nepal.
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  World Resources Report Case Study. Maintenance of Hydropower Potential in Rwanda Through Ecosystem Restoration

  World Resources Report, 2011

  Although it is not possible to state with confidence how climate change may alter precipitation patterns in Rwanda, it is clear that this process will affect the management and generation capacity of its hydroelectric sector in the future.
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  Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change.The Social Dimensions of Adaptation to Climate Change in Ghana

  World Bank, 2010

  This report presents important knowledge on Ghana’s vulnerability to climate change and various adaptation options that could be integrated into sectoral and spatial planning. It provides the needed inputs for planning a sustainable future. The need to pay attention to community-level actions/responses through direct support and mainstreaming into national policy cannot be overemphasized.
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  Pre-feasibility study for an improved cook stoves project in Northern Ghana

  CARE International, 2009

  A contract was signed between the Danish Energy Agency and CARE Danmark on 10 June 2009 to carry out a pre-feasibility study for a CDM Program of Activities (PoA) on improved cook stoves in Northern Ghana.

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