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Library ResourceDecember, 2016Ethiopia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2016Rwanda, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rwanda’s variable and changing climate is an increasingly serious challenge to the country’s
agricultural sector and farming population. Climate information services are emerging as a
means to support farmers to manage risk and provide an opportunity to build the resilience of
agriculture to climate at all time scales. Climate services include historical, monitored and
forecast information, and value-added information products such pest and disease risk
warnings, crop yield forecasts, or management advisories. The new Rwanda Climate Services
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Library ResourceDecember, 2016Tanzania
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Library ResourceDecember, 2016Tanzania
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Uganda
Economic valuation of wetland ecosystem services enhances informed public decision
making concerning sustainable utilization of the ecosystem. The valuation is particularly
crucial where the economic values of wetlands need to be compared directly against the
monetary value of alternative public investments.
Burullus lake is one of the most vulnerable areas along the delta’s, it is the second largest of
the Egyptian northern lakes along the Mediterranean coast declared by Prime ministerial
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Tanzania
The government of Tanzania is highly concerned with management of wetland hence it is
fully committed to ensure that they are sustainably managed. In Tanzania, the wetlands are
known to be nature’s water store on land which supports a number of sectors including
agriculture, livestock, forest and wildlife providing vital ecosystems support. In general,
wetlands in the Ihemi Cluster face a number of challenges which some of them affects the
ecosystem and livelihood of communities. Agriculture being the major economic activity
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2016Burkina Faso, Mali, Africa, Western Africa
The livestock sector is one of the major contributors in agriculture, by some estimates
contributing up to 18% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Of this, about one
third is reported to be due to land use change associated with livestock production, another
one third is nitrous oxide from manure and slurry management, and roughly 25% is attributed
to methane emissions from ruminant digestion. Recent analysis suggests that developing
world regions contribute about two thirds of the global emissions from ruminants, with sub-
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