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    Trees and livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Karamoja is a dryland sub-region in north-east Uganda, where 82% of the population live under the poverty line. It is troubled by climate variability and climate change, where floods and droughts have had a particularly detrimental effect.
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    World Risk Report 2014

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2014
    This WorldRiskReport (WRR) consists of an index, a focus on cities and thematic case studies. The index describes the disaster risk for various countries and regions.  The content includes: 1. Urbanization – trends and risk assessment 2. Focus: The city as a risk area 3. The WorldRiskIndex 2014 4. Political challenges and perspectives
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    Addressing land degradation: benefits, costs, and policy directions

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2010
    Land degradation in the Philippines is a serious environmental problem with long-term implications for the sustainability of agricultural production. Protection of the resource base has thus become a policy priority, whether in terms of improving crop management in the lowlands or more urgently, arresting soil erosion in the uplands.
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    Protocol: effects of payment for environmental services and decentralized forest management on deforestation and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

    The Campbell Collaboration, 2014
    Natural forest preservation in the tropics, and thus in developing countries, must be an element of any effective effort to manage climate change. Forests serve as natural carbon sinks, which help to mitigate the effect of other carbon emissions. However, forest cover is being reduced and it is estimated that deforestation is responsible for 10-17 per cent of global carbon emissions.
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    Effects of decentralized forest management (DFM) on deforestation and poverty in low and middle income countries: a systematic review

    The Campbell Collaboration, 2014
    Natural forest preservation in the tropics, and thus in developing countries, must be an element of any effective effort to manage climate change. Forests serve as natural carbon sinks, which help to mitigate the effect of other carbon emissions. However, forest cover is being reduced and it is estimated that deforestation is responsible for 10-17 per cent of global carbon emissions.
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    Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of Mexico's payments for ecosystem services program

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    This document summarizes current findings from an evaluation of Mexico’s National Payments for Hydrological Services from 2003-2010.  Th evaluation seeks to understand the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the program, with the goal of extracting lessons learned and identifying room for possible future improvement.
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    A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.
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    Climate resilience urban development: vulnerability profiles of 20 Indian cities

    Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2013
    India is the second most populous country in the world. Its population has increased by more than 181 million during the 2001-2011 decade. Correspondingly, the urban population has increased from 286.1 million in 2001 to 377.2 million in 2011 an is expected to rise to 534 million by 2026.
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    The energy poverty and gender nexus in Himachal Pradesh, India: the impact of clean fuel access policy on women’s empowerment

    Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2009
    In India, one hundred and sixty million people, especially women and children, spend long hours gathering biofuels and suffer the health consequences of carrying heavy loads and from the pollution from burning biofuels. If they did not have to gather fuel, these hours could be used towards their self-development or for economically productive activities and hence alleviate poverty.
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    Energy and its sustainable development for India

    Integrated Research and Action for Development, 2009
    India, at 1.17 billion people is the second most populated country in the world and is home to 17% of the world population. Its primary energy consumption (in 2007) was 18.65EJ, 3.75% of the entire world.

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