DDRN News November 2009: Climate Change, Food Security and Research Communication
Dear network member,
Since the latest monthly newletter (October 2009), several activities have been posted on the DDRN website. In this newsletter you can read all news posted regarding the multi-disciplinary themes prioritised by the Network:
1. Climate Change
2. Food Security
3. Research Communication
This newsletter is distributed monthly to all network members.
If you have any news regarding events, papers, briefs, funding, links, or other news within these themes that you wish to share with other network members, you are most welcome to send an email to maf@ddrn.dk. Please note that we only include papers that have been published already. Thanks!
Please use the headings as links to read more about the news.
1. CLIMATE CHANGE
1. Events:
Developing and engaging community participation on urban air pollution and climate change. November 30, 2009, 15:30-17:30 -Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Classroom 13 (Area 6, second floor). Fore registration please send an email to Peter Vangsbo no later than November 27, 2009.
Climate Wednesdays at Center for African Studies (CAS): 1) Low Carbon development and poverty alleviation in Africa: The facts, the options and the critique (Seminar with Mikkel Funder, DIIS ) - December 2, 2009 - 13:15-15:00; 2) To be Hungry and Negotiate Climate Change (Special Seminar in cooperation with Climate Sustainability PLATFORM) - December 9, 2009; 3) Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) with perspectives on Africa (Seminar with Dr. Sven Wunder, Senior Researcher CIFOR, Brazil (t.b.c.) - December 19, 2009. CAS, University of Copenhagen, Købmagergade 46, Copenhagen K.
Integrating Approaches: Sustainable Livelihoods, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. December 3, 2009 - London, UK.
Copenhagen Climate Exchange 2009. December 3-6, 2009 - Copenhagen, Denmark.
Countdown to Copenhagen: Scientific Essentials of a COP15 deal. December 7, 2009, 9:15-15:30 - University of Copenhagen, Festsalen, Vor Frue Plads, Copenhagen.
Climate Change Adaptation, Indigenous Peoples' Rights and the Value Chain Approach. December 11, 2009, 12:30-15:00 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Asiatisk Plads 2, 1448 Copenhagen K.
Call for Contributions: Resilient cities 2010 - 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change. May 28-30, 2010 - Bonn, Germany. Deadline for sending contributions: December 31, 2009.
Call for papers: International Conference on Climate Change and Human Mobility. April 12-14, 2010 - University of Copenhagen
Deadline for submission of proposals: January 15, 2010.
For upcoming events announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
1. Papers and reports:
Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy. Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Paper 189, by A. Mattoo, A. Subramanian, D. van der Mensbrugghe, and J. He, November 2009.
Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization? Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Paper 188, by A. Mattoo, A. Subramanian, D. van der Mensbrugghe, and J. He, November 2009.
Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions: Re-framing the Climate Change Narrative. Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Paper 187, by Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian, November 2009.
Assessing Household Vulnerability To Climate Change - The Case Of Farmers In The Nile Basin Of Ethiopia. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Discussion Paper 935, by T. T. Deressa, R. M. Hassan, C. Ringler, November 2009.
For papers and reports announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
1. Briefs:
The Business of Adaptation. AccountAbility and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Climate Policy Briefing 1, by Maya Forstater, Saleemul Huq and Simon Zadek, November 2009.
COP15 for journalists: a guide to the UN climate change summint. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Briefing Paper, by Mike Shanahan, November 2009.
Mapping the South African Farming Sector’s Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability: A Subnational Assessment. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) Research Brief 15-3, by Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo and Claudia Ringler, November 2009.
Africa’s Biocarbon Interests – Perspectives for a new climate change deal. World Agroforestry Centre policy brief 05, July 2009.
Seeing REDD in the Amazon: a win for people, trees and climate. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Sustainable Development Opinion Paper, by Virgilio M. Viana, March 2009.
For briefs announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
1. Manuals and guidelines:
Resource guide on gender and climate change. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) guide, 2009.
For manuals and guidelines announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
1. Funding sources:
Request for Applications: International Developmnet Research Centre (IDRC) International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change. Closing Date: January 7, 2010.
For more open calls for funding announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
1. New links on DDRN website:
CDM in Africa
Climate Change Media Partnership
Eldis Community Climate Group: Run up to Copenhagen
Foundation for Energy, Climate and Environment (FECE)
1. Other news:
CGD Climate Policy Choices Survey. Center for Global Development (CGD) has launched a survey to collect views on what an efficient, effective, and equitable climate agreement could look like. Please contribute before November 30, 2009.
Council conclusions on Climate change and development. Weblog by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) concerning discussions and decision on climate change from the 2974th External Relations Council meeting held in Brussels on November 17, 2009.
The climate challenge for ACP agriculture. Report from 4th Brussels Development Briefing convened by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and other partners on February 13th 2008.
The use of agrobiodiversity by indigenous peoples and rural communities in adapting to climate change. Documentation from workshop organised by Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research together with Bioversity International and the University of Chiang Mai Plant Genetic Resources and Nutrition Laboratory (CMUPNlab), June 17-20, 2009.
2. FOOD SECURITY
2. Events:
From Global Food Crisis to Local Food Insecurity. December 9, 2009, 8:30-13:00 - Berlaymont, Brussels, Belgium.
For upcoming events announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
2. Papers and reports:
Food and Nutrition Emergencies in East Africa: Political, Economic and Environmental Associations. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Discussion Paper 909, by Ruth Oniang’o, October 2009.
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World. Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Paper 164, by Nora Lustig, March 2009.
Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices. Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Paper 155, By Nora Lustig, November 2008.
For papers and reports announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
2. New link on DDRN website:
Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture (GCHERA)
2. Other news:
The Way Forward on Food and Nutrition Security. Statement Prepared for the World Summit on Food Security November 16, 2009, by Joachim von Braun, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
3. RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
3. Events:
Communication for Policy Influence: GDNet Research Communication Workshop Series. December 2-3, 2009 - Colombo, Sri Lanka.
For upcoming events announced in the previous newsletters, please visit the DDRN website.
3. Papers and reports:
Learning lessons on research uptake and use: A review of DFID's research communication programmes, June 12, 2009. The Department for International Development (DFID) review papers, 2009.
Policy-making as discourse: a review of recent knowledge-to-policy literature. Joint IKM Emergent–Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Working Paper No. 5, by Harry Jones, August 2009.
For papers and reports announced previously, please visit the DDRN website.
3. New links on DDRN website:
Climate Change Media Partnership
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Best regards
Marianne Forti
Communications Officer
Danish Development Research Network
Department of Geography and Geology
University of Copenhagen
Øster Voldgade 10
1350 Copenhagen K
Tel: +45 35322522
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