A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations and benefits of resilience thinking and undermining evaluation of resilience outcomes in target communities...
Ensor, Jonathan
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Park, Sarah E.
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Attwood, Simon
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Kaminski, Alexander
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Johnson, Johanna
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[Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?]
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Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?
The potential for social learning to address complex, interconnected social and environmental challenges, such as climate change adaptation, is receiving increasing attention in research and practice. Social learning approaches vary, but commonly include cycles of knowledge sharing and joint acti...
Ensor, Jonathan
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Harvey, Blane
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[Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice]
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Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice
Whilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to recognise or adequately challenge these contexts where they constrain capacity to adapt. To address this failing, ...
Ensor, Jonathan
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Park, Sarah E.
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Hoddy ET
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Ratner BD
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[A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity]
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A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity
Pfeifer, Catherine
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Morris, Joanne
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Soka, Geofrey
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Ouédraogo, Salifou
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[Designing locally relevant visions of livestock sector development for Tanzania]
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Designing locally relevant visions of livestock sector development for Tanzania
This companion document provides supporting information about the “Comprehensive Livestock
Environmental Assessment for improved Nutrition, a secured Environment and sustainable Development along livestock value chains” (CLEANED) tool and how it has been parameterised for use in Tanzani...
Pfeifer, Catherine
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Morris, Joanne
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Soka, Geofrey
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Moses, Eliezer A.
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Ensor, Jonathan
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[CLEANED documentation: Conceptual overview of CLEANED and parameterisation of a CLEANED tool for Lushoto, Tanzania]
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CLEANED documentation: Conceptual overview of CLEANED and parameterisation of a CLEANED tool for Lushoto, Tanzania
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and
Food Security (CCAFS1) is challenging its own community of scientists and partners to understand the importance of co-created knowledge in finding solutions to local climate change issues. Local communities dealing with the daily reali...
Carlile, Liz
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Ballantyne, Peter G.
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Förch, Wiebke
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Garside, Ben
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Harvey, Blane
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Patterson, Zachary
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Woodend, John
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[Climate change and social learning (CCSL): supporting local decision making for climate change, agriculture and food security]
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Climate change and social learning (CCSL): supporting local decision making for climate change, agriculture and food security
CARE International launched the five-year Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) for Africa in 2010, implemented in Ghana, Niger, Mozambique and Kenya, in partnership with local civil society and government institutions. The programme seeks to identify successful approaches to Community-Based Adapt...
Global Futures aims to improve the capacity of the CGIAR centres to evaluate and prioritise research investments, and to support the decision-making of international development partners and national policymakers by giving those who work in agricultural development the kinds of information they n...
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) was established as a programme in 2009 by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as a way to synthesise research and policy lessons from Latin America and discuss them with a global audience – as part of a responsible exit strategy fr...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA)]
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Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA)
Africa Adapt is an online/offline knowledge sharing platform that was designed to share local African knowledge and experience on climate change. It was set up after a scoping of partners, through a number of regional forums in Africa, to discuss the idea of a knowledge hub and to identify what w...