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Structure and performance of formal retail market for bamboo products in Kenya

This study focuses on the bamboo market segments in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu with the aim of addressing uncertainties in market structure and lack of concrete information on market potentials of the products.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 05:00
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Strengthening links between local government and NGOs and expanding the scope of their work : the Moreno Focus City project experience at WUF3

Moreno is one of the poorest municipalities in the greater metropolitan area of Buenos Aires; only 40% of its population is connected to the water distribution system and only 16% to a sewage system.
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Monday, January 2, 2006 - 05:00
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Urban agriculture Food security WASTE RECYCLING INCOME GENERATION ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Growing business of growing in the city : IDRC supports urban agriculture

The close connection that urban agriculture creates between the ecology and economy of
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 - 05:00
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Managing water at the urban-rural interface : the key to climate change resilient cities (URAdapt) : final technical report

Urban centres rely on outlying rural areas, particularly where they supply water and food for cities. Simultaneously, resilience strategies must account for the relationships between multiple water-use sectors.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 04:00
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Stories from the field : helping African cities prepare for climate change

According to United Nations figures, 40% of Africa’s one billion people
currently live in urban areas; 60% of this group live in slums without
adequate water supply and sanitation. Urbanization in Africa is occurring
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Sunday, January 2, 2011 - 05:00
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Stories from the field : protecting smallholders' food security by improving soils

The resilience of farming systems to climate change and variability depends upon
healthy soil. Millions of African farmers lack the money, technologies, livestock and time
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Saturday, January 2, 2010 - 05:00
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Stories from the field : balancing competing water needs in Morocco's Saiss basin

Each year, Moroccans use nearly 70% of their annual recoverable water supply
which is about 20 cubic kilometres. While this may sound sustainable, at the
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Saturday, January 2, 2010 - 05:00
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Adapting to climate change in peri-urban Southeast Asia

The presentation provides an overview of research to identify the drivers of vulnerability (including both men and women’s experiences) to climate-related water stresses in three selected peri-urban areas in Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 05:00
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Learning for an uncertain future : vulnerabilities of agricultural production to flood in the Sangkae river basin, Northwest Cambodia

Vulnerability is produced through different scalar configurations of human‐environment interactions. Indicator‐based approaches are useful to categorize vulnerability, but not useful for understanding it.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 05:00
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Improving food and livelihood security through water-energy-agriculture management in Punjab under climate change and variability

Emerging issues due to intensive agriculture in the Punjab region are declining crop diversity; stagnation/slow growth in productivity; recent decline in rainfall; and depletion in groundwater resources.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 05:00

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