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  India-east Africa ties: mapping new frontiers

  India-Africa Connect, 2009

  This edition of ‘Africa Quarterly – Indian Journal of African Affairs’ delves into India’s engagement with east Africa in all its myriad dimensions. The contributions to the journal take a critical look at areas and issues that need to be addressed, if the India-Africa relationship is to flourish to its full potential.
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  Africa Adaptation Programme knowledge management needs survey report 2012

  2012

  This report is a broad assessment of the knowledge needs of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) countries. It hopes to help these countries capture, share and capitalise on the wealth of climate- and development-related knowledge available, thus enabling them to pursue data driven agendas and resilience-boosting strategies.
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  Evidence from the frontlines of climate change: loss and damage to communities despite coping and adaptation

  United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012

  This study presents empirical findings from fieldwork around the world examining loss and damage caused by global warming. The report begins by defining and contextualising the emerging discourse on assessing, quantifying and reacting to loss and damage. Key findings from the five case study sites include the following.
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  IRENA handbook on renewable energy nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) for project developers and policy makers

  International Renewable Energy Agency, 2012

  This handbook focuses on the role that nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) can play in promoting renewable energy (RE) in developing countries.
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  The future of environmental sustainability in the Taita Hills, Kenya: assessing potential impacts of agricultural expansion and climate change

  Fennia, 2012

  The indigenous cloud forests in the Taita Hills, Kenya, have suffered substantial degradation due to agricultural expansion. Currently, only one per cent of the original forested area remains preserved. Furthermore, climate change imposes an imminent threat for local economy and environmental sustainability.
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  Access to climate change information and support services by the vulnerable groups in semi-arid Kenya for adaptive capacity development

  African Crop Science Society, 2012

  Despite being projected to face the greatest impact of climate change, vulnerable people of the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate access to the support services and information they need to build their adaptive capacity to an effective level.
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  The politics of agricultural carbon finance: the case of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2012

  In the context of major scientific and policy concern with the causes and implications of climate change, various actors are now keen to demonstrate how agricultural carbon finance can help achieve multiple benefits or ‘triple wins’ for sub-Saharan African agriculture.
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  The Politics of Agricultural Carbon Finance: The Case of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012

  STEPS Centre Working Paper 49by Joanes Atela In the context of major scientific and policy concern with the causes and implications of climate change, various actors are now keen to demonstrate how agricultural carbon finance can help achieve multiple benefits or ‘triple wins’ for sub-Saharan African agriculture.
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  Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: an exploration into alternative investment options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions regarding the future viability of pastoral farming, arguing that these livelihoods should be sedentarised and diversified.
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  M-governance: Exploratory Survey on Kenyan Service Delivery and Government Interaction

  2012

  With the aim of investigating citizens’ opinions on the best methods to interact with government, one-week of exploratory fieldwork was conducted in Nairobi in November 2011. This paper shares the initial findings from the fieldwork focusing on how Kenyan citizens understand governance and how they currently interact with the government.

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