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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in Pakistan

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  Climate change, food security and trade linkages in South Asia

  2013

  This briefing paper examines the linkages between climate change, food security and trade in South Asia.
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  From the ground up: Changing the conversation about climate change

  BBC Media Action, 2014

  This policy briefing, produced by BBC Media Action, draws upon the world’s largest study of people’s everyday experience of climate change: the Climate Asia Project.
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  Climate & environment assessment: tackling acid and burns violence

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This paper is a climate and environmental assessment that was conducted as part of the “Business Case” for “Tackling Acid and Burns Violence in Asia”. It involves applying a climate and environmental sensitivity analysis to identify climate and environmental impacts and opportunities, and preparing the climate and environment assurance note.
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  The potential of NGOs to build resilience to climate extremes and disasters in the Sahel and a selection of DFID priority countries

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  The BRACED is a multi-year programme which will scale up funding to NGOs interventions that build community resilience to extreme climate events in ten African and South Asian countries.
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  Supporting climate resilient value chains

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This report include an examination of three commodity supply/value chains that are grown in four African states besides Pakistan and Bangladesh. The document focuses particularly on current trends in the value chains and considering whether they will face challenges due to physical climate effects under a range of scenarios.
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  Water management in the Indus Basin in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities

  International Water Management Institute, 2011

  The Indus River basin supplies water to the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world, providing water for 90% of the food production in Pakistan, which contributes 25% of the country’s gross domestic product. But Pakistan could face severe food shortages intimately linked to water scarcity.
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  Searching evidence for climatic change: Analysis of hydro-meteorological time series in the Upper Indus Basin

  International Water Management Institute, 2001

  The study examines some of the major components of water cycle in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) to look for evidence of climate change. An analysis of hydrometeorological data has been performed for UIB.
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  Land and water productivity of wheat in the western Indo-Gangetic Plains of India and Pakistan: a comparative analysis

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  The purpose of this study is to analyze variations in wheat yields and to assess the range of factors affecting wheat yields and profitability of wheat production in the selected irrigation systems in India and Pakistan. The study attempts to identify constraints and opportunities for closing the existing yield gaps.
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms

  World Bank, 2013

  The government of Pakistan's 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 per cent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment climate, and strengthen institutions.

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