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• Socio - economic consequences of climate change in Hindu - Kush Himalaya

  Posted:Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:20:45 +0000

  The answer to how climate change will affect Hindu-Kush-Himalaya depends on whom you ask.

• Farmers’ seed systems in Nepal: review of national legislations

  Posted:Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:52:11 +0000

  Seed regulatory frameworks in Nepal were reviewed from the perspective of farmers’ seed systems. Nepal has formulated 17 policy instruments (including draft bills) since 1988 when the first Seed Act came into effect.

• Mai-NDombe: will the REDD+ laboratory benefit indigenous peoples and local communities? Analysis of the cumulative impacts and risks of REDD+ initiatives

  Posted:Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:02:38 +0000

  REDD+ in Mai-Ndombe.

• Logging in Congo's rainforests: a "carbon bomb" about to be primed by the Government of Norway? A call for urgent action

  Posted:Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:27:15 +0000

  The government of Norway, through its ‘Central African Forests Initiative’ (CAFI), is considering providing financial support to a programme being developed by the French Development Agency (AFD) to greatly expand large-scale commercial

• Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate: guiding principles for practitioners

  Posted:Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:14:00 +0000

  Humanitarian policies and practices unavoidably have both positive and negative impacts on various aspects of the vulnerability context it aims to address; hence, how we design and implement humanitarian interventions has an impact on fu

• Food security indicators: how to measure and communicate results

  Posted:Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:55:25 +0000

  The purpose of this paper is to assess how to measure food security and how to communicate results of activities that have improved food security as a goal. There are many challenges in measuring and communicating food security results.

• Hydropower production in future climate scenarios: the case for Kwanza River, Angola

  Posted:Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:53:01 +0000

  Climate change is altering hydrological processes with varying degrees in various regions of the world and remains a threat to water resources projects in southern Africa.

• Hydropower production in future climate scenarios; the case for the Zambezi River

  Posted:Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:45:51 +0000

  Climate change remains a threat to water resources projects in southern Africa where impacts resulting from changes in climate are projected to be negative and worse than in most other regions of the world.

• Variation in output shares and endogenous matching in land rental contracts

  Posted:Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:50:44 +0000

  We investigate the extent of variation in output sharing in land rental contracts and alternative hypotheses to explain this variation.

• Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa

  Posted:Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:30:10 +0000

  The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review.

• Management regimes for REDD+: an analysis of the regime in the RDS Rio Negro REDD+ pilot

  Posted:Tue, 02 Jan 2018 01:16:53 +0000

  This report is an output of the project ‘Man and forests – an evaluation of management strategies for reduced deforestation (Mana_Forest)’, led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway, in partnership with Fundação Ama

• Sustainable water management for resilience to climate change impact on society in South Africa (SUWAM)

  Posted:Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:32:36 +0000

  The report presents the key findings from the project Sustainable water management for resilience to climate change impact on society in South Africa.

• Integrating climate change in hydropower development in East Africa

  Posted:Thu, 28 Dec 2017 01:13:58 +0000

  The main objective of this study was to quantify the impacts of climate change on hydropower resources in East Africa thereby providing a basis for integrating the impact of Climate Change in hydropower development in the region.

• Norwegian Refugee Council's Country Programme in Central African Republic

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:58:51 +0000

  Norwegian Refugee Council's country programme in Central African Republic was re-established in 2014. Wedo work in advocacy, education, food security, shelter,information and legal counselling, and water and sanitationactivities.

• An introductory guide to understanding and claiming housing, land and property restitution rights in Myanmar: questions and answers

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:48:28 +0000

  Restitution  means  the  process  of  returning  to  one’s  home  after  displacement  and  achieving  the  recovery of one’s land.

• A framework for resolving displacement in Myanmar: the United Nations "Pinheiro Principles" on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:38:56 +0000

  Housing, land and property (HLP) restitution rights are essential elements to peace and reconciliation efforts aiming to fairly and sustainably overcoming situations of forced displacement.

• Restitution in Myanmar: building lasting peace, national rconciliation and economic prosperity through a comprehensive housing, land and property restitution programme

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:27:22 +0000

  The question of housing, land and property (HLP) restitution has received increased attention over the past several years throughout Myanmar as the country continues to consolidate recent democratic gains and political reforms.

• Briefing note: Housing Land and Property (HLP) in the Syrian Arab Republic

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:11:16 +0000

  This  note  explains  why  housing,  land  and  property  (HLP)  rights  are  relevant  to  the  current  humanitarian  response  inside  the 

• Mozambique’s REDD+: the challenge is scaling success

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:47:40 +0000

  The Testing REDD+ in the Beira Landscape Corridor of Mozambique initiative closed in December.

• Nepal

  Posted:Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:29:03 +0000

  The purpose of this Country Evaluation Brief is to present relevant knowledge about donors’  development efforts in Myanmar.

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