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Briefing note

Can’t Afford to Wait: Why Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation plans in Asia are still failing millions of people

06/11/2014

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-related disasters and food crises are devastating thousands of lives and holding back development across Asia. A year on from the devastating super-typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Oxfam is calling for governments across Asia to increase efforts to address these challenges – and for them to be backed by regional and global institutions and with […]

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Briefing paper

Food, Fossil Fuels and Filthy Finance

17/10/2014

6 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is already making people hungry, and the use of fossil fuels is largely to blame, representing the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally. On current trends, the world will be 4–6ºC hotter by the end of the century, exceeding 2ºC within the lifetimes of most people reading this report. This could […]

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Research report

A Sign of Things to Come? Examining four major climate-related disasters, 2010-2013, and their impacts on food security

19/09/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Four recent extreme weather events – the 2010 heat wave in Russia, the flooding in Pakistan in the same year, the 2010–2011 drought in East Africa and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013 – were notable for their intensity, duration, and impacts on livelihoods and food security. As part of its food and climate […]

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Issue briefing

The UN Climate Summit’s Public-Private Action Announcements: Sorting the promising from the greenwash

19/09/2014

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Since global leaders last met to discuss climate change five years ago, climate-related disasters have cost the world almost half a trillion dollars. More than 650 million people have been affected and more than 112,000 lives have been lost. World leaders meeting at the Ban Ki-moon Summit on 23 September need to help galvanize global […]

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Research report

Climate Shocks, Food and Nutrition Security: Evidence from the Young Lives cohort study

11/09/2014

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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Many people living in poor communities in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam experience climatic shocks such as droughts and floods, and many face episodes of food insecurity. To understand better the links between the two types of shocks, Oxfam commissioned research from the Young Lives international cohort study of childhood poverty. This report […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Climate Forecast Model: Lessons from ACCRA Uganda

10/09/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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In Uganda, roughly 70 percent of households are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization determined that the drop in the growth of the Ugandan economy from 6.6 percent in 2004–05 to 5.3 percent in 2005–06 was largely due to the variability of the weather, specifically its impact on agriculture. It is […]

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Issue briefing

Coffee Rust Fungus Threatens Employment Collapse in Central America

14/08/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Coffee rust is having a serious impact on the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of poor people in Central America who earn their income from growing coffee or working on coffee farms. Rising temperatures due to climate change have encouraged the fungus to spread, however the fundamental problem is the underlying vulnerability of the sector, […]

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Research report

The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland

25/07/2014

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, whilst living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are depicted by Oxfam’s Doughnut Model. It allows people to visualise a space between planetary boundaries (the outer edge of the Doughnut) and a social floor (the inner edge), where it is […]

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Case study

Good Practice Guide: Local Disaster Risk Reduction planning in Ethiopia

15/07/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study showcases the Ethiopia Disaster Risk Reduction national planning system and how the ACCRA programme supports its design, roll-out and scale-up using participatory tools and capacity building as a way to influence at all levels. This government-led programme seeks to change Ethiopia’s reactive approach towards emergencies and find new ways of managing risk. […]

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Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

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