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Inclusive Businesses and Land Reform: Corporatization or Transformation?

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29-01-2018

Inclusive businesses (IBs), embodying partnerships between commercial agribusinesses and smallholder farmers/low-income communities, are considered to contribute towards rural development and agricultural sector transformation. Structured as complex organizational set-ups consisting of, and…

Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: A study of farmers’ migration in rural India

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06-02-2018

This study aims to evaluate the link between climate/weather change and farmer migration in Bihar, India. The influence of cognitive conditions and climate-related stress on farmer migration decisions and the socioeconomic characteristics of migrating and non-migrating farm households are analysed.…

Focus on Migration: Moving backward, moving forward?Great Insights Magazine - Volume 7, Issue 1. Winter 2018.

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06-02-2018

Focus on Migration: Moving backward, moving forward? – Editorial Anna Knoll, Head of Migration Programme and Noemi Cascone, Junior Policy Officer, ECDPM The migration situation has monopolized the agenda of European leaders during past years. The EU’s external policies have been focusing on…

Visualizing a Warmer World: 10 Maps of Climate Vulnerability

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07-02-2018

The climate disasters that made headlines in 2017 — monster hurricanes, devastating floods and unprecedented drought — will become commonplace in the coming decades as climate change intensifies. Decision-makers from urban planners to corporate executives are grappling with how best to adapt. Should…

Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP)

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07-02-2018

The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) Beta is a central hub of information, data and reports about climate change around the world. Here you can query, map, compare, chart and summarize key climate and climate-related information.

Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems. Climate Change, Social Changes, Technological Development

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08-02-2018

The interrelations of human beings with ecosystems experience rising importance in sustainable land use planning and lead to the concept of socio-ecological system. Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) include both, a bio-geo-physical component and the related local to regional actors. Their system…

Climate-smart agriculture: Building resilience to climate change

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09-02-2018

There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources, such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities, play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well-being. Furthermore, there may be dire…

Alignment between nationally determined contributions and the sustainable development goals for West Africa. (open access)

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12-02-2018

This article aims to provide a better understanding of how NDCs might facilitate SDG progress in West Africa, particularly across goals 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero hunger), 6 (access to clean water and sanitation); 7 (affordable and clean energy); 13 (climate action) and 15 (life on land). Our analysis…

Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: Insights from African drylands

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12-02-2018

As river basin authorities and national governments develop policies to achieve sustainable development outcomes, conflicting signals between existing policies are undermining cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning. This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of…

Management of Climatic Extremes with Focus on Floods and Droughts in Agriculture

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15-02-2018

A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and timing of weather and climate extremes, and can result in unprecedented extremes. These climate extremes have significant impacts on human and ecological systems, which are influenced by changes in climate,…

A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration

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15-02-2018

Recent surveys of the literature devoted to climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we carry out a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the various methodological choices of these empirical…

Food security outcomes under a changing climate: impacts of mitigation and adaptation on vulnerability to food insecurity (open access article)

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21-02-2018

Climate change is a potential threat to achieving food security, particularly in the most food insecure regions. However, interpreting climate change projections to better understand the potential impacts of a changing climate on food security outcomes is challenging. This paper addresses this…

Sourcebook: Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of Ecosystem-based Adaptation Measures

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23-02-2018

Even though ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is recognised to hold considerable potential to strengthen climate adaption, it is still yet to be fully mainstreamed into development policy and practice. Valuation can provide convincing – and usually much-needed – evidence of the benefits of investing…

Soil cannot halt climate change

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01-03-2018

Long-term field experiments at Rothamsted Research, dating back as far as 1843, prove that modern carbon emissions cannot be locked in the ground to halt global warming

The new issue of Nature Climate Change is just out- see some of the articles, news and views

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07-03-2018

Species’ responses to climate change are contingent on the complexity and fragmentation of their habitats. Ecological niche modelling is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia of the King penguin in the Southern Ocean under climate change

'Climate Refugees': Beyond the Legal Impasse?

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08-03-2018

Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have seen so far. And yet…

Migration for Adaptation: A Guidebook to Integrate Migration and Translocality into Community-Based Adaptation

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08-03-2018

The new guidebook seeks to address a gap in the awareness and understanding of migration potentials and risks. It provides a theoretical framework and practical tools for assessing the impact of migration and translocality on the outcomes of development work at the local level and beyond and…

The Nuts and Bolts of a Climate-Conflict Link in East Africa

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23-03-2018

A recent article "Sampling bias in climate–conflict research" in Nature Climate Change has spurred a new chapter in the lively scholarly debate over the potential relationship between climate change and violent conflict. We agree with the article’s authors that there are several forms of sampling…

Pocket Guide for Capacity Building for Climate Change

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29-03-2018

For over a decade, the European Capacity Building Initiative(ecbi) has adopted a two-pronged strategy to create a more level playing field for developing country in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): training for new negotiators; and opportunities for senior negotiators from…

A critical analysis of the drivers of human migration patterns in the presence of contemporary climate change: presentation of a new conceptual model

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29-03-2018

Climate change can both directly and indirectly drive human migration. Despite this, strong understanding of the system of determinants of migration and their interactions, remains a knowledge gap resulting in large uncertainties and ill-informed interventions

Conference on Climate Change, Migration and Resilience from 5th – 9th September 2018 in Bonn

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13-04-2018

Climate change is already influencing migration and population movements – and will do so in future. Two perspectives on the nexus of migration and climate change have emerged: On the one hand, much policy and research attention is directed to climate change as a cause for migration, and for…

Mapping the vulnerability of European cities to climate change

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13-04-2018

A new study has assessed the vulnerability of 571 European cities to heatwaves, droughts and flooding caused by climate change. The causes of vulnerability differ across Europe and the researchers say the results could be used to design policies to mitigate the impacts.

Adapting to climate change: European countries assess vulnerability and risks

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24-04-2018

Almost all European countries have conducted national climate change vulnerability and risk assessments as part of their adaptation plans to better deal with the impacts of climate-related hazards, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published today.

RULES PHOTO COMPETITION 2018

PHOTO COMPETITION

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PHOTO COMPETITION 2018

Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) is pleased to announce the official launching of the 2018 Photo Competition. You are invited to submit, using this form, your best captures related to the theme of the contest,

“Have you been affected by land degradation? Show us how!”

Winners will receive: