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    An integrated approach to improving adaptive capacity: the adapta sertão experience

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
    This paper explains the Adapta Sertão programme and its success in identifying and overcoming key barriers to improving adaptive capacity through partnership building and diversified interventions to address the multiple needs of farmers in Brazil’s semi-arid region. It outlines the challenges, approaches, and key lessons learned.
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    Improving small farmers' adaptive capacity in semi-arid regions

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    In Latin America, as in Africa and Asia, 15-25% of the population lives in semi-arid areas, mostly in small isolated rural communities that are often the most severely affected by climate change.
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    Oil industry investment policies

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    This Brief presents a concise overview of the context of the Latin American (LA) oil industry and its performance. It analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the three main investment models followed, focusing primarily on the policy experience of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.
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    Water and climate change: improving access and management in semi-arid Brazil

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Water security is becoming increasingly problematic in semi-arid regions as a result of climate change. In response, Brazil’s federal government implemented two large programmes to build water infrastructure and facilitate access. However, the initiatives had a limited focus on water management, a gap that was filled by civil society to help put water to its most productive use.
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    Addressing the urban environmental challenge in integral and inclusive ways

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Integrated urban environmental plans developed in different Latin American countries show how to reduce systemic challenges in urban areas. Overcoming multi-dimensional urban issues requires a holistic view that includes channels for popular participation, higher level government support and cross-sector collaboration.
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    Land ceilings: reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?

    GRAIN, 2013
    Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective?
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    Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America

    Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.
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    ICTs and Good Governance: The Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Local Governance in Latin America

    Nucleo de Pesquisa em Políticas Públicas - NP3, Center for Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Studies at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, 2003
    This work is a survey of the conditions for the use of ICT in five countries in Latin America: Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico. In several municipalities, mayors, leaders and authorities were interviewed and many local organizations visited.
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    China’s Lusophone Connection

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    In October 2003, Macau hosted the first ministerial meeting of the Forum for Trade and Economic Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, bringing together high-level representatives from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Macau and China.
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    Evaluation of MDS Policies and Programs, Results. Volume 2: Bolsa Família Program and Social Assistance

    2007
    Brazil’s social protection policy, and in particular its Bolsa Familia programme, has been much discussed as a potentially valuable export to other rising powers, as well as to low-income countries looking to implement rights-based social protection policy.

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