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Tag: climate change adaptation

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Dairy herd in Aknaghbyur. Credit: Daniel Morchain/Oxfam

Assessing vulnerability to prioritise interventions – lessons from a South Caucasus village

We live in an uncertain world; here Daniel Morchain describes an approach to vulnerability and impact assessment he recently used in Armenia in order to reduce uncertainty and make our interventions as effective as possible. ...

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Aberra Chane, Ethiopian farmer. Credit: Crispin Hughes/Oxfam

Smallholders must be part of the solution to the food crisis

A food production crisis is facing the planet, but smallholder farmers could offer a significant part of the solution, says Colin McQuistan.  ...

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Aissata Abdoul Diop, a member of the Diawoud community women's cooperative. Due to lack of rain and rising food prices, people living in the Mauritanian Sahel are at risk of food insecurity

Extreme weather, extreme prices – what will more erratic weather do to food prices?

Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Adviser at Oxfam GB, on how more extreme weather events caused by climate change will affect food prices in the future. ...

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Harvesting potatoes in Chongoene, Limpopo Valley, Mozambique Credit: Joel Chiziane/OxfamAUS

Climate change and supply chains – is there a ‘business case’ for adaptation?

Oxfam recently invited 14 food companies and stakeholders, including Acclimatise, Café Direct, Marks & Spencer, Starbucks, The Body Shop and Waitrose, to discuss some of the issues raised by our new paper on Climate Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility. Here, Jodie Thorpe summarises that discussion. ...

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Collecting water in Bundibugyo, Uganda

A bold new approach to climate adaptation in rural Uganda

When ACCRA discovered that development plans for the remote Ugandan district of Bundibugyo failed to reflect the climatic challenges faced by local communities, the project took action. The end result was an integrated approach to adaptation. It's no longer seen as being 'just an environmental issue'. ...

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Hillside in La Paz. Credit: Sally Rangecroft.

Water scarcity in Bolivia – could rock glaciers hold an answer?

With water scarcity increasingly impacting on people living in Bolivia, Oxfam has sponsored a geography PhD student to map water resources in the Dry Andes. Here Sally Rangecroft explains more about her research and her experiences. ...

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Freshly picked coffee beans. Gilvan Barreto/Oxfam

Climate change is threatening your coffee – why doing nothing is not an option

What happens when climate change impacts on source products that are part of a global supply chain? Oxfam posed this question to three multinational corporations to find out what companies can do to support the farmers in their value chains to adapt. ...

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Harvesting potatoes in Chongoene, Limpopo Valley, Mozambique Credit: Joel Chiziane/OxfamAUS

Climate change adaptation – it's time we started talking about a revolution

The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) has published its report on the effect that development projects are having on people's ability to deal with change. Simon Levine reflects on what it all means, for development and for climate change. ...

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Dried reservoir of Lam Takhong Dam, in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. Credit: EPA/VINAI DITHAJOHN

Climate change, can we sue? New climate change litigation book launched at COP17

After the negotiations at Durban, a new book explores the role of litigation in bringing about climate justice. ...

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Hasina Begum, from Char Atra island, Shariatpur, Bangladesh, who has been forced to move home five times due to river erosion

Climate change adaption in South Asia

Many communities in South Asia are coping with the impacts of climate change, Charlotte Sterrett draws conclusions about the most effective approaches to adaptation. ...

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