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Guidelines and toolkits

Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation: A learning companion

18/11/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Climate change adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) are corporate priorities for Oxfam GB. This companion is the fifth in a series that covers key topics for programme staff. It aims to support Oxfam’s programme staff to integrate CCA into their work; it provides an overview of CCA; and it will direct you to […]

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Research report

Climate Change, Poverty and Environmental Crisis in the Disaster Prone Areas of Pakistan

17/11/2009

1 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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This study was commissioned to review the impact of climate change on Pakistan’s rural disaster-prone communities in Badin (Sindh), Rajanpur (Punjab), and Khuzdar (Balochistan). The study’s aim was to review community perceptions of the impact of climate change and recommend coping mechanisms for affected communities. The findings will support different organisations and institutions to initiate […]

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Briefing paper

People-Centred Resilience: Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security

16/11/2009

6 documents

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Globally, 1.7 billion farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The many who are already hungry are particularly vulnerable. Yet scaling up localised ‘resilience’ successes offers hope for these farmers, while helping to address the climate problem. New thinking to recognise vulnerable farmers as critical partners in delivering solutions is needed to increase their […]

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Book

Climate Change and Gender Justice

09/11/2009

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Climate change is often framed as a problem that needs mainly technical and economic solutions. Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender issues are entwined with people’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and how gender identities and roles may affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the changes. The vivid case studies in […]

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Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

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Issue briefing

Oxfam Poverty Footprint: Understanding Business Contribution to Development

01/11/2009

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Companies around the world are increasingly concerned about the impacts that their businesses have on societies in their home countries as well as abroad. For many companies operating in developing countries, impacts on society are related to the effects of their operations on development and poverty reduction, and in turn play an important role in […]

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Case study

Jasmine Rice: Adapting rice farming to climate change in Northeast Thailand

01/11/2009

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Oxfam supports communities and organisations around the world that are already developing the tools and techniques that can be used to adapt to global warming. This case study is one in a series that highlights some of this work to assist programme practitioners in sharing and learning on climate change adaptation. In 2007, after the […]

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Case study

Community-based Adaptation and Advocacy in Coastal Pakistan

01/11/2009

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2008, Oxfam GB in Pakistan undertook community-based research to better understand the implications of climate change for communities living in the Badin coastal region of Pakistan. This research was initiated following discussions between programme staff and partners about the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 reports, as well as the UNDP Human Development […]

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Case study

Rescuing the Past: Using Indigenous knowledge to adapt to climate change in Bolivia

01/11/2009

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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The Kenneth Lee Foundation, supported by Oxfam, is working with communities in Trinidad to build modern camellones, based on this ancient system and drawing on modern scientific understanding of agro-hydrology. The system is very sophisticated, producing fertile soil, fish stock, animal fodder, localised drainage and water management, nutrient production and organic recycling. The initial project […]

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Journal article

El Niño: an adaptive response to build social and ecological resilience

01/08/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Experience from adaptive and community-based resource management suggests that building resilience into both human and ecological systems is an effective way to cope with environmental change. El Niño phenomena are increasingly signalled in advance of their onset. We argue that it is beneficial to heed warnings of potential harm and to intervene in society to […]

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