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    Agricultural policy-making in sub Saharan Africa: Kenya’s past policies

    Tegemeo Institute of Agriculture policy and Development, 2008
    In many countries, the evolution and the development of policy is not documented. Therefore, for one to understand policy process, interviews have to be undertaken on individuals who are knowledgeable about the process. This study uses interviews to understand policy evolution and in the undertaking of Network Analysis.
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    Modeling choice of fuelwood source among rural households in Malawi: a multinomial probit analysis

    Eldis Document Store, 2010
    In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choice of fuel-wood source and, what are the environmental consequences of fuel-wood collection from Malawi’s forest reserves?
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    Drought case study for Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003
    Extreme climate events such as droughts are very common in Malawi and yet their impacts are generally not well factored into the long term National Development Plan. Good examples of the potential hazards of extreme climatic events have been demonstrated by the impacts of the 1948/49 and 1991/92 droughts.
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    Beyond carbon: rights-based safeguard principles in law

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2010
    The aim of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs are to protect all the Earth’s inhabitants from the serious threats posed by climate change. Safeguards ensure both mitigation and adaptation activities truly address these purposes.
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    The perceived impact of climate change on smallholder dairy production in northern Malawi

    Mzuzu University, 2010
    The vulnerability of smallholder dairy farmers to climate change remains a major concern for many researchers. This paper analyses the perceived impact of changes in rainfall patterns on water availability, disease occurrences, pasture production and in turn on milk production in Malawi.
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    Farmers in a Changing Climate: Does Gender Matter? Food security in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in India Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. This FAO study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability that men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security.
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    The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
    This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled
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    Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South.  The focus country of this project study, Ethiopia, has a legacy of variable and unpredictable rainfall, causing frequent droughts and heavy floods, undermining local as well as national food and water security.  The analysis in this paper is
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    Analysis of changes in energy consumption and demand trend in China’s agricultural production

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    China’s energy consumption for agricultural production has relied on petroleum and coal and other types of energy for a long time. However, this paper suggests that such irrational energy consumption pattern would unlikely be able to meet the increasing needs of the country’s developing agricultural sector.
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    Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.

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