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Improving Pasture Management and Livestock Rearing

Livestock rearing is the major component of arid agriculture. It plays an integral role in Rajasthan, where the people and their land are closely bound up with livestock rearing and farming. Climate...
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CIP Climate Graph Development

This month marks the launch of the new Climate Information Platform (CIP). In many ways the new platform has been a clean sheet redesign of many aspects of the old portal. One of the key changes has...
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Parabolic Community Solar Cookers, for Mid-Day-Meal Scheme in Rural Schools

Summary The objective of this project is to provide a clean and efficient substitute for fossil fuel based cooking solutions (like fuel wood and LPG) for the mid-day meals cooked in schools in the...
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Climate Change Vulnerabilities within Livestock in Morocco

Introduction This case study report attempts to spotlight the potential climate change consequences on North Africa’s livestock sector and possible adaptation measures. It presents a literature...
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Preventing flooding through a coastal bund

Perumalpettai's coastal bund for flood protection Located along the low-lying coastal area of the Bay of Bengal in Tamil Nadu, only 500 m from the coast, the village of Perumalpettai was destroyed by...
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Flood protection through a wing-wall river bund

Kaduvetti's wing-wall river bund Kaduvetti, a village located 2.5 km from the shore of the Bay of Bengal in Tamil Nadu and home to 52 families, is severely affected by saltwater intrusion and...
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Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh

The city of Khulna in South-western Bangladesh suffers from frequent inundation due to high intensity rainfall events, ©Ludwig. Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable due to the combination of...
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Mobile Monitoring System

A low cost Mobile Network System for monitoring climate and air quality of urban areas at high resolution: a preliminary application in Florence (IT) metropolitan area The combination of the “Heat...
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation

Adaptation context The National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) and the Initial National Communication (INC) established that a weak economy and widespread poverty in Bangladesh has contributed...
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Sri Lanka’s Serupitiya village adapts to climate change

Climate change impacts Sri Lanka’s high agro-ecological diversity, threatening agriculture:  a dominant economic sector and the source of livelihoods for many communities.  

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Phalodi, India
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Heat wave in Phalodi, India, 2016

On Thursday 19 May 2016, the Indian city of Phalodi reached 51°C. The Raising Risk Awareness project studied whether human-induced climate change had any role to play in the extreme weather.

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Floodplain Fencing Specification

Fencing on a floodplain carries risk of damage, repair costs and total loss of fence lines as a result of flood events. These issues can be minimised through enhanced specification. The fencing of...
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