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    Household Welfare Effects of Low-cost Land Certification in Ethiopia

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and land rental market activity. This study provides new evidence on land productivity changes for rented land and on the welfare effects of the reform.
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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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    Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: The Role of Development Interventions

    Overseas Development Institute, 2011
    Change is a constant in the lives of rural people in Africa. People have always had to cope with sudden shocks such as war, rain failures or food price spikes, and with longer-term stresses such as population increases, the degradation of natural resources and long-term decline in their terms of trade.
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    Locally-Led, Small-Scale Farming Could Help Prevent Future Food Crises

    2012
    This timely paper addresses issues of food security in the horn of Africa. It lays a solid foundation to demonstrate that more investment in locally-led, small-scale farming would help ensure longer-term food security for the world's most vulnerable under a changing climate, and bring environmental benefits, according to a recent analysis of adaptation work in Uganda.
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    Using small-scale adaptation actions to address the food crisis in the horn of Africa: going beyond food aid and cash transfers

    2011
    The consequences of the rise in food prices have demonstrated that the world’s food systems are not responding adequately to increased demand and limited supplies in ways that favour the interests of poor people. The crisis is exacerbated by the impact of climate change, droughts and land degradation on agricultural production and food systems.
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    Low-Carbon Africa: Leapfrogging to a Green Future

    Christian Aid, 2011
    This new report by Christian Aid makes the case that Africa is able to deliver clean and sustainable energy to millions of energy-poor people across the continent without increasing greenhouse gas emissions – and for this renewable power potential to drive a green economic expansion across the region.
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    Identifying opportunities for climate-smart agriculture investments in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    It is clear that, in the face of climate change, the agriculture sector in Africa is being called on to increase food production to meet the food demand for a growing population.
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    Proceedings follow-up meeting climate change adaptation and policymaking

    Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, 2008
    This report include findings during workshop held in Nairobi on capacities needed to better integrated climate change adaptation responses into agricultural, rural development and natural resources policy processes for climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa.Discussions include; Core functions for adapting to climate change; Regional linkages and initiatives; High level policy forum meeting; S
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    Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural sub-Saharan Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010
    Adaptation strategies must target those populations most vulnerable to global change and equip those unable to adapt—generally the poorest—with the tools and incentives that will enable them to do so.
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    Weathering the Storm: Girls and Climate Change

    Plan International, 2011
    How do girls experience climate change in Ethiopia and Bangladesh? This report, based on participatory research in the two countries, argues that programmes and policies that do not recognise the different ways in which girls and boys are affected by climate change risk exacerbating pre-existing gender inequalities and are failing to tackle one of the root causes of vulnerability to climate risk.

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