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