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Climate change and the emergence of helter-skelter livelihoods among the pastoralists of Samburu east district, Kenya

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Journal Articles & Books
januari, 2011
Kenya

Climate change impacts livelihoods adversely in dry-lands of Northern Kenya in terms of longer and harsher droughts, shorter and intense precipitation and floods. Climate change interlocks with peoples life-worlds differently for different reasons. Understanding the foregoing can inform and make policy more relevant.

L4: Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin

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januari, 2011
Botswana
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Southern Africa

The project focuses on access and control of water/land, and the associated management and governance mechanisms. L4 seeks to provide the people and governments of the Limpopo Basin with:

1. A package of ways to better understand and organise access rights to water for multiple uses from farm level to the basin and regional level,

Rangeland condition and feed resources in Metema district, North Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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Reports & Research
januari, 2011
Ethiopia
Eastern Africa
Africa

The study was conducted in 2006/07 in Metema district, North Gondar Zone of Amhara

region, Ethiopia, with the objectives to characterize the existing rangeland and to

determine the feed resources utilization practices, to assess the natural grazing land

condition based on herbaceous, woody and soil condition and to evaluate the chemical

Migración y desertificación

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Policy Papers & Briefs
december, 2010
Global

Aquellos que formulan políticas y decisiones internacionales reconocen que la relación entre el cambio medioambiental y la migración tiene graves consecuencias para la seguridad humana. El paradigma de la seguridad se ha alejado de los modelos centrados exclusivamente en el Estado para acercase a un patrón que contempla una idea más amplia: la del desarrollo humano como modelo de libertad.

Climate change and desertification

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Policy Papers & Briefs
december, 2010
Global

The message in this short, yet stark sentence highlights a phenomenon that farmers, particularly in marginalized dryland areas, have been experiencing for years – the threat of desertification and climate change to their lives. Carbon sequestration, however, serves a dual purpose to remedy this threat.