March’s 39 Top Resources: Climate | Adaptation | Gender | Farmer Markets | Environment | Livelihood | Environment
Special March Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Development, Sustainability and Nonprofit Programs
Special March Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Development, Sustainability and Nonprofit Programs
We have so many excellent resources come through CSDi that we periodically compile them and share them in an occasional, special newsletter.
Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.
CSDi Distance Learning Spring Academy in Adaptation, Development, Sustainability, Nonprofit Climate Change and DRR programs. Courses begin March 10
1. CLIMATE CHANGE
Farmers in a changing climate: Does gender matter?
Yianna Lambrou and Sibyl Nelson
FAO
2010
Training Guide Gender And Climate Change Research In Agriculture And Food Security For Rural Development
Sibyl Nelson
FAO
July 2013
10 things not to do with climate aid
Katie Peters and Simon Levine
ODI
25 February 2014
2. ADAPTATION
Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study for the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB)
USAID Mekong ARCC
November, 2013
Four New Papers on Planning Climate Change Adaptation
The African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) Program
February 2014
Adaptation Under the “New Normal” of Climate Change: The Future of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
Brent M. Simpson, C. Gaye Burpee
Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS)
January 2014
Africa Adaptation Newsletter Issue 4
Ed. Richard Munang
Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network (AAKNet)
January / February, 2014
Act to Adapt – Child Centred Climate Change Adaptation Project in Asia and the Pacific
Plan’s Child Centred Climate Change Adaptation (4CA) programme
February 2014
Supporting NAP development with the PROVIA Guidance: A user companion
Bisaro, A., J. Hinkel., M. Davis., R.J.T. Klein.
Stockholm Environment Institute
2014
Social learning for adaptation: a descriptive handbook for practitioners and action researchers
Georgina Cundill, Sheona Shackleton & Nick Hamer
IDRC/Rhodes University/Ruliv
January 2014
3. CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
Effect of shade on Arabica coffee berry disease development: toward an agroforestry system to reduce disease impact
Bedimo, JA Mouen, et al.
Phytopathology
2008
Effects of crop management patterns on coffee rust epidemics
Avelino, J., Laetitia Willocquet, and Serge Savary
Plant pathology
2004
4. ECOSYSTEM BASED ADAPTATION
Costs to bear – poverty reduction and climate change resilience
Richard Munang and Jesica Andrews
FIELD
February, 2014
Harnessing Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
Richard Munang, Jesica Andrews, Keith Alverson, and Desta Mebratu
UNEP
January, 2014
Integrating ecosystems in resilience practice: Criteria for Ecosystem-Smart Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Alejandro Jiménez, Pieter van Eijk, Marie-Jose Vervest
Wetlands International
March 2014
5. HOME GARDENS AND NUTRITION
Nutrition-focused home garden design
Gardens for Health International
November 2013
Critical geography of urban agriculture
Chiara Tornaghi
Progress in Human Geography Journal
February 2014
City Farmer News
Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso.
van den Bold, Mara, Pedehombga,Abdoulaye, Ouedraogo, Marcellin, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Olney, Deanna
IFPRI
2013
7. FARMERS AND MARKETS
Coffee and conservation: a global context and the value of farmer involvement
Philpott, Stacy M., and Thomas Dietsch
Conservation Biology
Avian abundance in sun and shade coffee plantations and remnant pine forest in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
Wunderle, J. M., and Steven C. Latta
Ornitología Neotropical
2004
Resource-Conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries
Pretty JN, Noble AD, Bossio D, Dixon J, Hine RE, Penning De Vries FW, Morison JI
Environ Science & Technology
2006
Despite climate change, Africa can feed Africa
Richard Munang and Jesica Andrew
Africa Renewal
2014
Crop diversity decline ‘threatens food security’
Mark Kinver
BBC News Science & Environment
March 3,2014
8. DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Integrated Flood Risk Management in Asia
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Flood Emergency Plan Guidance & Template
Bath & North East Somerset Council
9. PARTICIPATORY MAPPING
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Challenges, potentials and paradigm
Chambers, R.
World Development
1994
Stakeholder participation for environmental management: a literature review.
Reed, M.S.
Biological Conservation
2008
Assessing participatory GIS for community-based natural resource management: claiming community forests in Cameroon
McCall, M.K. and Minang, P. A.
The Geographical Journal
2005
10. LIVELIHOODS
Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa
Osbahr, H., C. Twyman, W. N. Adger, and D. S. G. Thomas
Ecology and Society
2010
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), traditional and modern agricultural marketing, food safety
Anne-Sophie Poisot with Andrew Speedy and Eric Kueneman
FAO Agriculture Department
2004
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) on horticultural production for extension staff in Tanzania. Training Manual
Wilfred L. Mushobozi
FAO Agriculture Department
2010
11. WATER
Community Water Planner Field Guide
Water Research Australia
2006
e-Learning Course on International Water Law
UNITAR/University of Geneva
2014
12. FORESTRY
Good Tree Nursery Practices (Community Nurseries)
Practicas Adequadas para Los Viveros Forestales(Viveros Comunitarios)
Kevyn Wightman
ICRAF
1999
Good Nursery Practices: A Simple Guide
Anne Mbora, Jens-Peter Barnekov Lillesø, and Ramni Jamnadass
World Agroforestry Centre
2008
Lessons Learned from Community Forestry in Asia and Their Relevance for REDD+
Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities Program (FCMC)
February 2014
Investing in locally controlled forestry in Mozambique
Isilda Nhantumbo, Duncan Macqueen, Regina Cruz, Antonio Serra
IIED
December 2013
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