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    Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity, such as crop failure, to highlight the social and political dimensions that are inhibiting progress.
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    Impact Study on Developing Local Capacity to Reduce Vulnerability and Poverty

    Building and Social Housing Foundation, UK, 2011
    This report presents findings of a study to assess the impact of the a Development Workshop France (DWF) project in Vietnam to promote the prevention of typhoon damage to housing and public buildings over the last ten years.
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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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    Climate change: storm brewing for Uganda's booming tea industry

    Participatory Research with Farmers, International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2011
    Tens of thousands of Uganda’s tea producers – many of them Fairtrade certified – will need to take decisive action to protect their crop and their livelihoods if the latest climate change predictions come true.
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    Climate Change Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages on Regime Design, Maintenence, and Death

    2011
    Although climate linkages are prolific across various types of social organisation, this special issue focuses of the wide range of ways that international regimes are strategically linked to climate change politics. In recent years we noticed a marked increase in regime-level linkage politics seeping into both formal UNFCCC negotiations and side events.
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    Adapting to climate change in the water sector

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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    Are we building competitive and liveable cities? Guidelines for developing eco-efficient and socially inclusive infrastructure

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2011
    This guideline jointly published by The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), in partnership with the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, provides practical tools for city planners and decision makers to reform urban pl
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    Climate change and development links

    Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2006
    Part of the Gatekeeper Series produced by the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme at IIED, this paper charts the evolution of climate change and development study and shows why the two fields have, until recently, remained largely independent.
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    Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, UC Berkeley

    The 21st century will be an urban century with more people around the world residing in metropolitan regions than in any other form of human settlement.
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    The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
    A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.

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