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    A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on African cropland

    African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
    This paper examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa using a ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, the study analyses the impact of climate and other variables on the annual net revenue. The authors confirm that current climate change affects the net revenues of farms across Africa.
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    The environmental food crisis: the environment’s role in averting future food crises. A UNEP rapid response assessment

    GRID Arendal, 2009
    This report provides the first summary by  the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and how we may be able to feed the world in a more sustainable manner. The report examines the need to get smart and more creative about recycling food wastes.
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    The future of sustainability in the Arab region

    International Union for Conservation for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) - West Asia/Middle East Regional Office (WAME), 2008
    The absence of a unified Arab perspective towards the sustainability approach and a lack of local capacity to generate a knowledge body which can contribute to the global debate on this, prompted the development of a regional forum to consolidate a south-based perspective with a special emphasis on Arab countries.
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    REDD strategies for high carbon rural development

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2008
    Large areas of the humid tropics are like mosaics, combining features of forests and agriculture and housing hundreds of millions of people. Land uses that store high quantities of carbon, such as agroforestry and other tree-based systems, make up a large part of those mosaic areas.
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    Illegal logging: current issues and opportunities for SIDA/SENSA engagement in Southeast Asia

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    This report provides an overview of the issues, root causes, and driving forces behind the crimes related to
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    SMART 2020: enabling the low carbon economy in the information age

    The Climate Group, 2008
    Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has increased productivity and supported economic growth across the globe. But what impact does ICT have on climate change? This report attempts to quantify the direct emissions from ICT products and services based on expected growth and looks at where ICT could enable significant reductions of emissions in other sectors of the economy.
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    Conserving land, protecting water

    International Water Management Institute, 2008
    Following from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture project, this book examines the relationships and linkages between land use and water management and social systems.
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    Child voices: children of Nepal speak out on climate change adaptation

    Children in a Changing Climate, 2008
    In 2008 Children in a Changing Climate’s research programme worked with ActionAid Nepal, and its partner organisations, to help poor children in the plains, hills and urban areas of Nepal make short films about how climate change is being experienced by their communities.
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    Urbanisation, global environmental change, and sustainable development in Latin America

    Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil, 2008
    Despite the central role of urban areas in socio-economic and geo-political change processes at the local, regional, and global level, as well as in the regional and global biophysical processes, little attention has been paid so far to the complex and dynamic interactions between urban areas and the biophysical and chemical processes of global environmental changes.
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    European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi)

    The European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) focuses on overcoming a key limitation of the UN climate change negotiations - the lack of a level playing field between delegations, both North-South,

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