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Five key principles for Adaptive Social Protection programming
These can be used as a roadmap for implementers, or a checklist for holding programmes to account
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Is my social protection programme 'shock-responsive' or 'adaptive'?
What is adaptive social protection? How does it differ from shock responsive social protection? Why does it matter?
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BRACED Update
Weather information by phone in Mali life changing for farmers in Tèrèkungo and Parana
This year, farmers of Mali's Tèrèkungo, Parana and dozens more villages have had access to tailored weather information through a telephone messaging system dubbed "Sandji"
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Instant forest? 'Tree hopping' takes off in Kenya
Moving trees from areas where there are plenty to areas that have none can help restore degraded areas quickly, farmers say
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Green gold': Kenyan farmers abandon food crops to grow herbal stimulant
Struggling to get decent maize harvests as drought bites, farmers are turning to fast-growing, less-thirsty muguka to make money
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In rain-short Mali, villagers enlist irrigation to ward off extremism
Locals hope boosting water supplies - and rice yields - can deter young people from seeking better prospects with armed groups
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Finding fakes: Mobile phones help detect counterfeit seeds in Kenya
A push by Kenya Seed Company to help farmers verify the authenticity of seed is helping them protect harvests in the face of climate change
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As drought stokes urban hunger, Ethiopia dishes up free school meals
As poor rains cut harvests, driving up food prices in cities, Addis Ababa authorities join charities in feeding hungry children
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Dried-up pastures push Kenya's Maasai to mix cattle with crops
As worsening drought linked to climate change damages the grazing land herders need to feed their cattle, a growing number are turning to agriculture for extra income
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Where is the promised money, campaigners ask at climate talks
Faced with mounting costs from climate-linked disasters, poorer nations need help quickly, activists say at Bangkok negotiations
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