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Here are some relevant articles from various sources on climate change and dryland areas. |
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Climate Change in Eastern and Southern Africa: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Report 2008:2 from GECHS, University of Oslo
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Survival of the fittest
Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa.
Oxfam Briefing Paper No. 116.
August 2008
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Browsing on Fences: Pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change
IIED issue paper no. 148
May 2008
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Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change: Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots
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News from Drynet
This is the second edition of the global news issue from the Drynet project on local concerns and views on drylands.
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Moving beyond forestry laws in Sahelian countries
Policy brief by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Union.
March 2008
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Climate change and adaptation in African agriculture
Stockholm Environment Institute
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Fuelling Exclusion? The Biofuels Boom and Poor People’s Access
FAO and IIED, 2008
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Claims and Facts on Jatropha curcas L.
Global Jatropha curcas evaluation, breeding and propagation programme. Plant Research International B.V., Wageningen, the Netherlands, Report 158, 42 pp + annexes.
Jongschaap, R.E.E., W.J. Corré, P.S. Bindraban, W.A. Brandenburg, 2007.
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The Prospects for Improving Science-Policy Communication in the Desertification Regime
The Role of Uncertainty
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Beyond Any Drought
Root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel
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Workshop on climate change, humanitarian disasters and international development
Linking Vulnerability, Risk Reduction and Response Capacity
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Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4257, June 2007
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How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate?
IFPRI Forum, December 2006. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute
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Overcoming One of the Greatest Environmental Challenges of Our Times:
Re-thinking Policies to Cope with Desertification
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Sudan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
This UNEP assessment report was carried out to develop a solid technical basis for medium-term corrective action in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development in Sudan following the conflict.
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The Urgent Need to Increase Adaptive Capacities
Evidence from Kenyan Drylands.
Conflicts and Adaptation Policy Brief.
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Climate Variability and the Millennium Development Goal Hunger Target
Report by the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
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Sustainable Development in Africa: Is the Climate Right?
IRI Position Paper prepared under consultancy by Dr. James Williams, with contributions from IRI scientific staff and partner organizations in Africa and Europe.
IRI Technical Report Number IRI-TR/05/1
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A Gap Analysis for the implementation of the Global Climate Observing System programme in Africa
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Saving lives through livelihoods:
Critical gaps in the response to the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa.
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A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas
A feasibility study of a practical method of drought insurance that is self-sustaining and ready for use by poor farmers, NGOs and other development organizations.
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Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Armed Conflict
This paper by Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal from the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo is a paper in progress with only preliminary results. A revised version will soon be available on this website.
This article presents a new approach for assessing the impact of environment on domestic armed conflict by using geo-referenced data and small geographical units of analysis. It addresses some of the most important factors assumed to be influenced by global warming: land degradation, freshwater scarcity, and population density and change. The preliminary results indicate that the relationships between local level demographic/environmental factors and conflict are not uniform.
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Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist Systems
This research report from the International Food Policy Research Institute discusses community-level outcomes that can be affected by both climate variability and by externalities generated when managing the commons. The report focuses on pastoralist systems in in Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
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