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  Shifting Sands: The Commercialization of Camels in Mid-altitude Ethiopia and Beyond

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011

  Although pastoralists in Ethiopia are often characterized as unresponsive to market opportunities, the bulk of Ethiopia’s growing formal and informal livestock and meat exports are supplied from pastoralist areas of the country. This report describes a new trend in pastoralist livestock marketing, being a dynamic response to increasing demand for camels in Ethiopia, and in neighboring Sudan.
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  State of world population 2011: people and possibilities in a world of 7 billion

  United Nations Population Fund, 2011

  This report provides a snapshot of how a number of countries are facing diverse demographic challenges, ranging from ageing populations to high fertility rates, and from urbanisation to the emergence of new generations of young people.
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  Conflict in the Somali Region of Ethiopia: can education promote peacebuilding?

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011

  This report is an analysis of the links between conflict and education in Somali Region, and examines if and how improved education might contribute to peace and security objectives.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Climate impacts, forest-dependent rural livelihoods and adaptation strategies in Africa: A review

  2010

  This article looks at the impacts of climate change on African forest ecosystems and forest-related sectors and the implications for rural livelihoods. The review looks at case studies from Botswana, the Gambia, Ethiopia, Republic of Congo, Malawi and Uganda for impacts, underlying causes of vulnerability, and coping and adaptation strategies.
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  Local governance and ICTs in Africa: Case studies and guidelines for implementation and evaluation

  International Development Research Centre, 2011

  This volume provides information on and analyses of e-governance at the municipal and the local level in Africa, thereby opening up the possibility of further research on how new technologies can be used to change the governance architecture in Africa.
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  Strengthening local resilience to climate change

  Promoting Local Innovation, 2011

  The challenge of climate change calls for action to assist vulnerable communities to cope and adapt. In keen awareness of this, numerous international CCA initiatives have emerged. Most of them involve large-scale, 'high-tech' infrastructure for physical protection.
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  Economics of adaptation to climate change: synthesis report

  World Bank, 2011

  As developing countries weigh how best to revitalise their economies and craft a sustainable development path to boost living standards, they will have to factor in the reality that the global annual average temperature is expected to be 2º C above pre-industrial levels by 2050.
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  Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability in East Africa: A case study on the use of CARE's Climate Change Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) Methodology within the Global Water Initiative East Africa Programme

  Care Climate Change Information Centre, 2011

  This case study analyses the results, lessons learned and recommendations emerging from the application of the Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) methodology. The assessment was carried out within CARE’s framework for Community-based Adaptation (CBA) in the context of the Global Water Initiative (GWI) in East Africa, funded by the Howard G.
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  Inheritance practices and gender differences in poverty and well-being in rural Ethiopia

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011

  This paper examines the role of men’s and women’s asset inheritance on the poverty and well-being of women and their families in rural Ethiopia. We use data from the 1997, 2004 and 2009 rounds of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to investigate the following issues: 1) What is the long-term impact of gender differentials in inheritance on household consumption, poverty and food security?

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