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    New voices, different perspectives: Proceedings of the AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium 2011

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This report brings together the proceedings of the 2011 AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium, which share the research, experiences, and co-constructed knowledge that emerged from the three-day, bilingual symposium with the wider climate and development community.
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    IFAD Strategic Framework 2011-2015

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    IFAD’s fourth Strategic Framework covers the period 2011-2015. It presents IFAD’s overarching goal, objectives and thematic areas of focus. It also articulates the principles of engagement that will guide operations and how IFAD will deliver against the framework. IFAD’s unique mandate is improving rural food security and nutrition, and enabling rural women and men to overcome poverty.
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    Climate Economics: The State of the Art

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2011
    Economic analysis has become increasingly central to the climate policy debate, but the models and assumptions of climate economics often lag far behind the latest developments in this fast-moving field. This report aims to correct this problem and identify areas where substantially more research must be done.
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    Weather Index-Based Insurance in Agricultural Development: A Technical Guide

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    The technical guide is intended as a practical reference tool to guide IFAD, WFP and other donors’ country programme management staff through the steps of implementing a Weather Index-based Insurance programme. It is based on the recognition that weather index-based insurance represents an increasingly viable approach to help smallholder farmers prepare for climatic events.
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    Micro insurance for local adaptation

    Wiley Online Library, 2010
    Insurance instruments that provide economic security against droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and other weather extremes have emerged as an opportunity for developing countries to reduce their vulnerability to weather variability and adapt to climate change.
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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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    Adaptation to climate change and managing disaster risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

    Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, Barbados, 2003
    This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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    Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

    Science Direct, 2010
    This paper explores the role of markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in facilitating climate change adaptation of local communities in the Congo Basin.
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    CARE International Climate Change Brief: Adaptation and Food Security

    CARE International, 2011
    Food insecurity is a growing concern throughout the developing world, particularly for poor women and children. CARE understands that achieving food security for all will require a coordinated effort that incorporates preventive, promotional, protective and transformative measures. This brief outlines CARE’s understanding of the challenge and our response.
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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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