June Top Resources: Climate Change | Climate Smart Agriculture | Smallholder Value Chains
Special June Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainability
We encounter so many excellent adaptation and climate change resources that we periodically compile them and share them in a special issue newsletter.
Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.
Climate Change
Youth in action on climate change: Inspirations from around the world
UNFCC
United Nations Joint Framework Initiative on Children, Youth and Climate Change
May 2013
http://unfccc.int/cc_inet/files/cc_inet/information_pool/application/pdf/youth_pub_2013_en_m.pdf
Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Midyear Update June 2013
ECOFYS
http://www.ecofys.com/en/publication/status-report-on-nationally-appropriate-mitigation-actions-namas/
A Training of Trainers Manual for REDD+. For community level facilitators.
RECOFTC
http://www.recoftc.org/site/resources/REDD-ToT-Manual-for-Community-level-Facilitators.php
http://www.recoftc.org/site/uploads/content/pdf/REDD+%20Training%20-%20Community%20Level%20Manual%20v.11%20-%20web%20version_243.pdf
Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation
Disaster Risk Management Practitioner’s Handbook Series
http://www.adpc.net/2012/download/DRM-Handbook/ADPC%20DRM%20Practitioners%20Handbook%20-%20Climate%20Change%20Adaptation.pdf
Mainstreaming climate change resilience into development planning in Kenya
Vincent Mutie Nzau
http://pubs.iied.org/10044IIED.html
Eight Steps to Climate Proof Development in Africa
Richard Munang
The Guardian: Global Development Professionals Network
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development-professionals-network/2013/apr/08/mdgs-climate-change-agenda-africa
A Toolkit of Resilient Agricultural Responses to Climatic Challenges in Tropical Asia
Rick Burnette
ECHO Asian notes
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.echocommunity.org/resource/collection/0ADF35ED-72B3-44AA-92B5-D50F9B4A741D/AN_16.pdf
Agriculture and Climate Change. Learning from Experience and Early Interventions
Case Study Compilation
CDKN
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/CCAg_LEEI-Case-Studies-2.pdf
Achieving food security in the face of climate change
Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
CGIAR
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf
The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change
UNFPA/IIED
http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/images/publications/2013/The%20Demography%20of%20Adaptation%20to%20Climate%20Change.pdf
Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook. 570 pages
FAO. June, 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/i3325e.pdf
Download the executive summary: http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/
YPARD 2012 Activity Report
Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development
http://ypard.net/resources/ypard-activity-report-2012
Interventions for Achieving Sustainability in Tropical Forest and Agricultural Landscapes
CAPRI
Peter Newton, Arun Agrawal, and Lini Wollenberg
May 2013
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wp/capriwp110.asp
Forage crop production and management. The effects of herbaceous legume intercropping and mulching on the productivity of Napier grass (Pehnisetum purpureum) and total forage yield in coastal lowland Kenya
J.G. Mureithi and W. Thorpe
ILRI
http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/InfoServ/Webpub/fulldocs/AFRNET/Theefec.htm
A Scientific Perspective on Composting
John K. Lekasi, Keziah W. Ndung’u and Mary N. Kifuk0
Organic resource Management in Kenya – Chapter 8
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/Scientific20Perspective20on20Composting.pdf
Organic Resource Management in Kenya – Perspectives and Guidelines
Savala, Canon E. N., Omare, Musa N. | Woomer, Paul L.
http://41.215.122.106/dspace/handle/0/4040
Smallholder farmers in Makueni turn to drought resistant crops
By Agatha Ngotho, Nairobi Star
http://www.agra.org/news-events/news/smallholder-farmers-in-makueni-turn-to-droughtresistant-crops-/
Conservation Agriculture – A manual for farmers and extension workers in Africa
IIRR
http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/AfricaTrainingManual.html
http://publications.cta.int/publications/publication/1563/post-harvest-processing/
Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: the heretics view
Ken E. Giller, Ernst Witter, Marc Corbeels, Pablo Tittonell
Elsevier
http://www.csd-i.org/storage/blog/Conservation%20agriculture%20and%20smallholder%20farming%20in%20Africa%20-%20The%20heretics%27%20view.pdf
A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions and improving nutrition outcomes
Peter R Berti, Julia Krasevec and Sian FitzGerald
PATH Canada (Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health)
http://www.healthbridge.ca/phn07599.pdf
Smallholder Value Chains
Leaping and Learning. Linking Smallholders to Markets
ODI
Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats
May 2013
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/7453-leaping-learning-smallholder-farming-market-intervention
World Bank: Africa Agribusiness Report 2013 – Africa Agribusiness
Feature Story: Africa’s Agriculture and Agribusiness Markets Set to Top US$ One Trillion in 2030
http://www.africaag.org/2013/03/04/world-bank-report-2013/?goback=.gde_3241614_member_219729675
FARA Agricultural Value Chain Member Discussion June 2013
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
http://next.dgroups.org/fara-net
www.fara-africa.org
http://www.csd-i.org/storage/blog/Fara%20Agricultural%20Value%20Chain%20Discussion%20June%202013.docx
Growing Africa. Unlocking the Potential For Agribusiness.
The World Bank
January 2013
https://ngo.csd-i.org/wp-content/uploads/Old-Squarespace-Blog/africa-agribusiness-report-2013.pdf
Empowerment Initiatives
West Africa Insight
http://westafricainsight.org/issues/view/32
Realizing the potential of collective action groups.
Coordinating approaches to women’s market engagement.
Oxfam
Written by Martin Walsh, Global Research Adviser, Oxfam GB. Editors: Imogen Davies and Sally Baden, Oxfam GB.
Researchers: Dr. Nandera Mhando, Dr. Elibariki Msuya and Dr. Carine Pionetti.
http://womenscollectiveaction.com/file/view/Eng_Tanzania_lorez.pdf
Women’s Collective Action. Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Markets.
Oxfam
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-collective-action-unlocking-the-potential-of-agricultural-markets-276159
http://womenscollectiveaction.com/file/view/GST_GROW.pdf
Excellent article on the importance of internships during a period of unemployment.
The Internship: Not the Movie
Thomas L Friedman
New York Times
June 8, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-internship-not-the-movie.html?_r=0
Development
‘Post -2015’ international development goals. Who wants what and why.
Emily Benson
http://pubs.iied.org/17162IIED.html
An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development. Report for the UN Secretary General
6 June 2013
Prepared by the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network
http://unsdsn.org/resources/sdsnreportjune2013/
An introduction to the use of randomized controlled trials to evaluate development interventions
Howard White. 3ie
Journal of Development Effectiveness
http://www.3ieimpact.org/evaluation/working-papers/working-paper-9/
Health
Nutrition ‘must be a global priority’, says researchers
Helen Briggs
BBC News, 5 June 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22779656
Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
Ruth Alexander
BBC News, 18 June 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22935692
Water Management
Sand dams bank water for dry season in semiarid Kenya
Isaiah Esipisu
http://www.trust.org/item/?map=sand-dams-bank-water-for-dry-season-in-semi-arid-kenya/
Community dams aim to build water security in arid Kenya
Kagondu Njagi
http://www.trust.org/item/20130603103952-mba98/
Women, unity, water: Adapting to climate change in improving livelihoods in Swaziland
IFAD and Rural Poverty Portal
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/voice/tags/swaziland/swaziland_climate
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