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Promoting low-carbon construction in rural India

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / CDKN Global

Project reference: TAAS-0007 Public housing and infrastructure developments across rural and semi-urbanised India are rarely designed to be ‘climate compatible’. Climate-compatible development addresses the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, use

Getting Agricultural Moving: Role of the State in Increasing Staple Food Crop Productivity...

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

Getting Agricultural Moving: Role of the State in Increasing Staple Food Crop Productivity with Special Reference to Coordination, Input Subsidies, Credit and Price Stabilisation By Colin Poulton and Andrew DorwardJune 2008 This

The Global Fertiliser Crisis and Africa

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

By the Future Agricultures ConsortiumJune 2008 Political and media attention has rightly been focused on recent increases in food and energy prices and their impacts on consumers and national economies, particularly

The crisis of pastoralism?

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

By Stephen Devereux and Ian Scoones As part of discussions on the future of pastoral production systems in East Africa there have been a number of recent interventions arguing that something

Using Social Protection to Reduce Vulnerability and Promote Economic Growth in Kenya

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

By John Omiti February 2008   While reducing risk and vulnerability, social protection (SP) measures can also promote productive activity and economic growth. This paper discusses how SP policies can be used

The Politics of Policy Reforms in Kenya’s Dairy Sector

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

By Rosemary Atieno and Karuti Kanyinga Febuary 2008   Recent reforms of Kenya’s dairy sector have been hailed as a long-term success story. This paper discusses the strengths and limits of Kenya’s

Wood product accounting and climate change mitigation projects involving tropical timber

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

Harvesting timber directly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere by reducing storage of forest carbon stocks and increasing storage in wood product stocks. This report examines on

Integration of climate adaptation into development and conservation planning in Bhutan

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

This publication highlights the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform’s (AKP) work in Bhutan towards building bridges between existing knowledge on climate change adaptation and the governments, agencies and communities

Assessment of the impacts and adaptive capacity of the Machobane farming system to climate change in Lesotho

Tuesday, September 4 2012 / Eldis

Agriculture remains a major source of income for more than 80 per cent of the rural population in Lesotho, although the country's arable land is only about nine per cent

LEAD introduces pioneering new placement scheme for its Fellows

Monday, September 3 2012 / Katie Singer

LEAD has launched a new placement programme scheme for its Fellows and Associates, run in conjunction with the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).

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