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Maya Forstater, Smita Nakhooda and Charlene WatsonThis working paper is part of a series of studies of the effectiveness of dedicated climate funds. This paper reviews the Amazon Fund in Brazil.
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Diverting grain from animal feed and biofuels: can it protect the poor from high food prices?
This report looks at the case for preventing hikes in cereal prices by temporarily diverting some of the grain produced for animal feed and biofuel production, to human use. -

New build in Ehtiopia
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Source: FlickrThe age of choice: developing countries in the new aid landscape
Amid the cut and thrust of high-level discussions on global goals and the architecture of development finance at the international level, a fundamental shift is taking place in developing countries. This event will present the findings of new research into how the changing aid landscape looks from the perspective of developing countries.
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Civil-military coordination in natural disasters: Americas region
This roundtable aims to bring together various stake holders from the UN, humanitarian agencies, regional bodies, government representatives, military, police and security bodies to explore policy and operational debates relating to civil-military coordina tion in disaster management in the Americas region.
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Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS
Milo Vandemoortele, Kate Bird, Andries Du Toit, Minquan Liu, Kunal Sen and Fábio Veras SoaresThis ODI Working Paper examines the experiences of four of the BRICS – Brazil, China, India and South Africa – and identifies four key factors shaping the countries’ pattern of growth: people having access to assets; investment in productive activities; social transfers; and a political-economic context where inclusion is a priority. -
National adaptation plan guidelines launched for Least Developed Countries
Mairi Dupar provides an update from the Doha cllimate change conference on the launch of the Least Developed Countries National Adaptation Plan guidelines. -
Planning for climate compatible development: insights from Kenya, Pakistan and Peru
Mairi Dupar explores what the governments of Kenya, Pakistan and Peru have in common in terms of their climate change action plans. -
Climate finance regional briefing: Latin America
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North and Nella Canales Trujillo, Smita Nakhooda and Alice Caravani, ODIThis Brief describes international climate finance that is being channelled to countries in Latin America to fund national climate change actions . It looks at funding across the major themes of adaptation, mitigation and REDD-plus, as well as identifying the principal actors within the region. -

Chinese agriculture. Zhenyuan, on the Wuyang River - China
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Source: FlickrFuture Agricultures Consortium: China and Brazil in African agriculture
Africa is a major destination of the Brazil and China's diplomatic and economic ventures, and agriculture a leading topic for development cooperation activities across the continent. This project investigates the impacts of these changes on African agriculture.










