Climate change, drought and pastoralism in the Sahel
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With the recent Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Nairobi (November 2006), significant international attention has been drawn to the issue of climate change. It is widely recognised that developing countries stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, they are in the weakest position to mitigate the adverse effects and stand to lose some of the current development gains that have been made as a result.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007