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  • Africa: What Does the 'Doha Climate Gateway' Mean for Africa?

    A UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the "Doha Climate Gateway."

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    Using Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Actions to Tackle Food Insecurity

    by Richard Munang, Ibrahim Thiaw, Keith Alverson, Mounkaila Goumandakoye, Desta Mebratu, and Jian Liu

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  • Africa Adaptation Programme Releases Closing Conference Report

    The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has released a summary report of the regional conference ...

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    Horn of Africa Drought Needs Long Term Solution.

    As the humanitarian community works to save lives in the areas affected, the need for sustainable solutions to prevent a reoccurance ..........

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  • Using targeted Adaptation Actions to Address the Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa:

    The paper showcases that lessons learned from the Climate Change Adaptation....

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    Adaptation stimulus works

    Rwanda Implements UN-Supported Climate Adaptation Plan: Relocating Communities from High-Risk Zones.read more
  • Targeted water adaptation solutions in Africa

    In North America, landfall of Hurricane Sandy in New York, and the ensuing 40 billion dollars .....

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    UNEP GC SIDE EVENT: Building the ecological foundation of food security

    With global population approaching 8 billion by 2025, this will place a huge demand on . ......read more
  • Eight steps to climate-proof development in Africa

    Climate change must be integrated into the post-2015 agenda, as ignoring it may condemn many Africans to a life of poverty

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    Bee Keeping in Ethiopia

    Bees Business Tackles Climate Change and Food Security in Ethiopia. Bee farming has become ......read more

Success Stories

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    ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN ZONGOENE COMMUNITY, XAI-XAI DISTRICT

    The project area is subject to floods, regular sea water intrusion and prolonged droughts. The three most vital economic activities of the communities

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    Helping Togo adapt to water shortage under a changing climate

    Togo is one of several countries with a northern region similar to the Sahel that border the Sahara Desert, and the people of the north of the country have for years used earth water

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    Rainwater harvesting in Seychelles schools

    The republic of Seychelles is vulnerable to particular climate change effects and challenges which include sea level rise, increase in sea surface temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns with short periods of heavy rainfall during the rainy season and severe droughts during the dry season being a common occurrence. .
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