NRI PUBLICATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

NRI staff are actively carrying out research, and advising policy-makers and donors, on the impacts of climate change on the rural poor and the prospects for adaptation.  We are very pleased to make some of the results of this work available as NRI’s Working Paper Series on Climate Change, Agriculture and Natural Resources

Working Paper No.1 (2010) Climate Change, Agricultural Adaptation and Fairtrade: Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities, by Valerie Nelson, John Morton, Tim Chancellor, Peter Burt and Barry Pound

Working Paper No.2 (2011) Gender and ‘Modern’ Biofuels: A Guidance Paper for Policy-Makers, by Valerie Nelson and Yianna Lambrou

Working Paper No. 3 (2011) Scoping the Gender Issues in Liquid Biofuel Value Chains, by Valerie Nelson and Yianna Lambrou

Working Paper No. 4 Climate Change and Post-Harvest Agriculture (forthcoming).

We also have limited numbers of hard copies available: please request copies from Caroline Troy c.troy@gre.ac.uk

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NRI staff have also written, or collaborated on, a number of important reports and papers published by outside organisations.  We highlight a number of these, all of which are freely available for download:

Emerging Approaches for Responding to Climate Change in African Agricultural Advisory Services: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations for an AFAAS Climate Change Response Strategy by Richard Lamboll, Valerie Nelson and Nick Nathaniels,  for the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (2011)

Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation – Agriculture Sector by R. Clements, J. Haggar, A. Quezada and J. Torres, ed. X. Zhu, for the UNEP Risø Centre (2011)

 Climate Change, Gender and Smallholder Agriculture by Valerie Nelson.  Report commissioned by CIAT-Africa and the Pan African Bean Research Networks.  CIAT Working Paper (2011)

Working Paper to Support an Interactive Seminar on Environment and Sustainability in the High-Value Agriculture Sector in Africa, by Valerie Nelson, Helena Posthumus and John Orchard, for World Bank 

 Gender, Generations, Climate Change and Social Protection: Thematic Review and Annotated Bibliography by Valerie Nelson, ODI Working Paper(2011)

Responding to Climate Change in Viet Nam: Opportunities for Improving Gender Equality: A Policy Discussion Paper by Koos Neefjes, Valerie Nelson and others, Oxfam/UNDP-Viet Nam Report (2009)

Climate Change and Land Tenure: The Implications of Climate Change for Land Tenure and Land Policy by Julian Quan with Nat Dyer, FAO Land Tenure Working Paper (2008)

Climate Change Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity and Development: A Discussion Paper by Valerie Nelson, Richard Lamboll and Adele Arendse, and Climate Change and Disasters by John Morton, Background Papers for the DSA-DFID Policy Forum on ‘Climate Change and International Development: Beyond Mainstreaming’ organised by the Tyndall Centre, NRI and SouthSouthNorth (2008)

The Impact of Climate Change on Smallholder and Subsistence Agriculture by John Morton, article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2007)

Food, Fibre and Forest Products, by William Easterling, Pramod Aggarwal and Lead Authors including John Morton, Chapter 5, Volume 2 of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007)