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Highlands and Drylands : Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
South Africa, Southern Africa, Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
desertification
land restoration
women
Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers. Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia
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Climate change and the emergence of helter-skelter livelihoods among the pastoralists of Samburu east district, Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
pastoralists
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. What are the Samburu peoples discernment of climate change and how have they confronted it? The paper examines the Samburu perspectives of climate change and the resulting coping, adaptation mechanisms and practice, and their prospects.
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State of the Cities Report 2011 - Towards resilient cities

A reflection on the first decade of a democratic and transformed local government in South Africa

Conference Papers & Reports
August, 2011
South Africa
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
urban areas
land governance
corruption
environment
climate change
land-use planning
sustainable land use
land management
South African cities are under the national and international spotlight again. Community protests over service delivery, disputes about councillor selection, mismanagement and underspending of municipal budgets, and recurrent billing problems have attracted growing public concern. Yet cities have also been fêted for rekindling a spirit of national unity during 2010, delivering world-class transport schemes and leading the economy out of recession.
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KENYA State of the Environment and Outlook 2010

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
forest conservation
Kenya has been implementing an active environmental management programme including education and public awareness. Most Kenyans are therefore aware of the link between environmental management and human well-being. They know that environmental degradation exacerbates poverty and undermines economic progress. Of course, there are still those who lack appreciation of the ecosystem services that are central to our wellbeing but these are a minority.
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Bush thickening and indigenous woody plants as a source of renewable energy

January, 2012
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
climate change
land use
Surplus woody plants in areas where there is bush thickening present an opportunity to harvest the wood as bio-fuel. The health of the ecosystem and rangeland restoration must, however, always be prioritised during any tree harvesting for bio-fuel. In South Africa, indigenous woody plants are a prominent feature of the savannah, the largest of the vegetation biomes in South Africa and the Southern African sub-continent.
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Carbon intensification and poverty reduction in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya agricultural carbon project

January, 2012
Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land management
poverty
This paper focuses on the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, implemented by the NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector.
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Assessment of the impacts and adaptive capacity of the Machobane farming system to climate change in Lesotho

January, 2012
Lesotho, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
assessment
research
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 of the total land area. Moreover, the rural economy has been declining due to poor land and water resources management, unsustainable farming practices and unpredictable weather conditions. Communities living on marginal lands whose livelihoods depend on natural recourses are among the most vulnerable to climate change.
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Challenges and prospects for REDD+ in Africa: desk review of REDD+ implementation in Africa - a GOFC-ACRENET synthesis

January, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
research
This report reviews the status of REDD+ implementation in Africa, identifying forest degradation as one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The research lists current projects in Africa to build a database of REDD initiatives and their status of implementation. The main issues addressed are: the political and institutional challenges and prospects for REDD; the technical challenges and prospects for REDD; social and economic challenges; resource and funding issues; and performance monitoring/reporting metrics being developed.
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Reducing the vulnerability of urban slum dwellers in the Southern African region to the impact of climate change and disasters

January, 2011
Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land governance
Current estimates of climate change state that the world’s average temperature is due to increase by at least 2oC to 2.4oC over the next 50?100 years. Furthermore it is expected that by the end of the century a range of additional impacts will be felt: sea levels will rise by an estimated 60cm, resulting in flooding and the salinisation of fresh water aquifers, and snow and ice cover will decrease. Simultaneously, precipitation patterns will change so that some areas will receive large increases whilst other areas will become hotter and drier.
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The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

January, 2011
Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Asia, Northern America, Northern Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania, Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
land use
fisheries
poverty
agriculture
The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.This final report of the Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Project argues that decisive action needs to take place now. The report identifies five considerable challenges ahead: