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  How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This working paper explores the ‘scaling out’ of community-based adaptation (CBA) pilots, which is defined as ‘more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area, more equitably, more quickly, and more lastingly’.
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  Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing adaptive capacities of agropastoralists to climate change in West and southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2013

  This publication seeks to identify promoted policy entry points to support the implementation of priority adaptation strategies, and identifies policy mechanisms as appropriate interventions to allow agropastoralists to buffer the effects of climate variability and change.
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  Adaptation to climate change in water, sanitation and hygiene: Assessing risks, appraising options in Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  This Overseas Development Institute report assesses the risks of, and appraises options for adapting to, climate change in the areas of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in Africa. The report begins by presenting the context and relationship of WASH and climate change, including the risks and uncertainties, before discussing risk screening approaches to the issue.
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  Fact sheet. Project: Comparative study of incentive options for forest - based emissions reduction, biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement; Case of Kilwa and Lindi Districts

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  The project entails a comparative study on incentive options for forest-based emissions reduction, biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement, comparing villages with REDD+/PFM (Participatory Forest Managment) and without REDD+/PFM and also comparing each set of villages over time.
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  Fact sheet. Project: REDD Architecture in Tanzania: Assessment of REDD options for Livelihood Security and Sustainable Development

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  Climate change is one of the biggest global problems posing challenges to sustainable livelihoods and economic development, particularly for Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The adverse impacts of climate change on environment, human health, food security, human settlements, economic activities, natural resources and physical infrastructure are already noticeable in many countries.
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  Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

  International Water Management Institute, 2012

  This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.
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  Energy, development and climate change: Striking a balance

  Watershed Organisation Trust, 2014

  This report focuses on rural energy needs in India, in particular energy for subsistence for livelihoods, mobility or infrastructure. It argues that in charting out a developmental pathway which is ecologically sustainable, India has a wider spectrum of choices precisely because it is at an early stage of development.
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  City-level climate change mitigation and adaptation

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013

  Latin American cities are under increasing pressure from rapid urbanisation, while current impacts and potential threats from climate change are further exposing municipal vulnerabilities. City planners are responding to these twin pressures with innovations in climate-related policies and are making big strides in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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  The indirect effects of adaptation: Pathways for vulnerability redistribution in the Colombian coffee sector

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013

  This paper examines the possibility that measures taken to bolster livelihoods and adapt to climate change in one place could increase vulnerability elsewhere.
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  Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.

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