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Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest initiative. Synthesising Report 2007-2013
2014This report presents the findings of a real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) support of efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, taking into account forest conservation, sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+).DocumentSocial-ecological changes in a Quilombola community in the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil
Springerlink, 2014Through a combined adaptive cycle and political ecology approach, this article explores how the Afro-Brazilian Quilombolas of Bombas, living inside the protected area of PETAR, respond to and shape social-ecological changes in the Atlantic Forest.DocumentAre wives less selfish than their husbands? Evidence from hawk-dove game field experiments
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014Lab-in-the-field Hawk-Dove game experiments were played by spouses in a rural sample of households in Southern Ethiopia where women/wives traditionally have a weak position.DocumentLearning the hard way? Adapting to climate risk in Tanzania
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014We use recent panel data on Tanzanian farm households to investigate how previous exposure to weather shocks affects the impact of a current shock. Specifically, we investigate the impact of droughts on agricultural outcomes and investments in children’s health, measured by their short- and long-term nutritional status.DocumentPrepare for new environmental standards in the global textile value chain
2013This paper reflects the outcome of a study about environmental standards and their trade impacts – the case of Indian textiles and clothes (T&C) eco-labels in Nordic markets. The paper highlights that there is a substantial consumer pressure in Norway for more sustainable and eco-friendly solutions or eco-labels in particular.DocumentNorway's fair share of an ambitious climate effort
Norwegian Church Aid, 2014This report is focused on mitigation, although an equitable approach to adaptation is of course equally important. It uses a flexible and transparent framework for equitable effort sharing that is drawn directly from the UNFCCC’s core equity principles.DocumentFrom research to result: transforming peasant agriculture? Mid-term review of EPINAV Programme, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. Final report.
The Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, 2014Norway’s Embassy in Dar es Salaam contracted a mid-term review (MTR) of the Programme "Enhancing Pro-Poor Innovations in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value Chains" (EPINAV), implemented by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in collaboration with Norway’s University of Life Sciences (NMBU).DocumentPayments for nature values: market and non-market instruments
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014A central element in the international negotiations on resource mobilization under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is to broaden the basis for financing the implementation of the convention. The issue of payments for nature values as resource mobilization is at the center of the controversy in these negotiations.DocumentP for plunder: Morocco's exports of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara, 2012 & 2013
2014All life on the planet, and so all agricultural production, depends on phosphorus, P. That element is found in phosphate rock and turned into fertilizers. For the people of Western Sahara, their P does not grow into benefits. Rather the contrary.