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  The future of work: Findings of research commissioned by the Oxfam ‘Empower Youth for Work’ program

  Oxfam Novib, 2020

  Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year program (2016-2021) run by Oxfam, funded by the IKEA Foundation.
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  Livelihoods and land uses in environmental policy approaches: The case of PES and REDD+ in the Lam Dong Province of Vietnam

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017

  This paper explores assumptions about the drivers of forest cover change in a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) context in the Lam Dong Province in Vietnam.
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  Environmental income and rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis

  World Development, 2014

  This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR’s Poverty Environment Network (PEN). Environmental income accounts for 28% of total household income, 77% of which comes from natural forests.
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  Rethinking food aid in a chronically food-insecure region: Effects of food aid on local power relations and vulnerability patterns in Northwestern Nepal

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  The impacts of repeated food aid programmes on households’ livelihood strategies and capacity to adapt to stressors such as climate change were investigated in the chronically food-insecure district of Humla in Nepal, using food security as an entry point for analysing vulnerability.
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  Impacts of higher temperatures on labour productivity and value for money adaptation: lessons from five DFID priority country case studies

  Vivid Economics, 2017

  This report assesses the impact increased temperatures will have on labour productivity in select DFID priority countries, and maps out the adaptation options that could mitigate these impacts.
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  Proceedings of the Symposium Incentivizing Mountain Communities for Ecosystem Services in the Context of a Changing Climate: International Conference on Biodiversity, Climate Change Assessment and Impacts on Livelihoods

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

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  Strengthening women’s roles as risk and resource managers at the frontline of climate change

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  • Research shows that in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) climate variability already influences water availability, ecosystem services, and agricultural production. According to downscaled climate projections, the risks of climate-induced hazards such as floods, landslides, and droughts are projected to increase significantly by 2050.
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  Regional orientation training on ecosystem services assessment: 19–23 December 2016, Udayapur, Nepal

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  The Support to Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation in the Himalaya (Himalica) initiative aims to support poor and vulnerable mountain communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts through collaborative action research and pilot activities.
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  Status of gender, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya : impacts and implications for livelihoods, and sustainable mountain development

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  The overarching recognition in all the literature is that climate change will have huge and largely detrimental impacts on vulnerable communities, and that gender will be a defining feature in shaping individuals’ experiences of adverse circumstances.
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  Pro-Poor Access to Green Electricity in Kenya

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Is Kenya on track to follow an electrification strategy that is green and pro-poor? What are the main challenges to following this path? The two questions guiding this study are particularly relevant in a country with exceptional renewable energy resources, but where 80 per cent of the population lacks access to electricity and 50 per cent lives in poverty.

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