<div><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.csd-i.org/" target="_blank">Centre for Sustainable Development's</a> <a href="http://www.csd-i.org/csdi-blog/2013/6/20/june-top-resources-climate-change-climate-smart-agriculture.html" target="_blank">special June Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainability</a>&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">presents best international resources on climate change, climate smart agriculture, smallholder value chains, health and water.</strong></div><div><span data-mce-style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></div><div><a href="http://www.csd-i.org/" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">Centre for Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">&nbsp;encounters so many excellent nonprofit, climate change, DRR and development&nbsp; resources that we periodically compile them in a special issue newsletter. </span><a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.csd-i.org/csdi-blog/2013/6/20/june-top-resources-climate-change-climate-smart-agriculture.html" rel="Access and download these resources" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" target="_blank">Access and download these resources</a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">.</span></div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>June Newsletter Summary:</strong></span></h3><p><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Find current, downloadable tools and documents on these&nbsp; themes:</span></span></p><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Climate Change:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>NAMAs</li><li>REDD+</li><li>Mainstreaming climate change resilience into development</li><li>Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation</li><li>Climate Proof Development in Africa</li><li>Youth in action on climate change</li><li>The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change</li><li>Eight Steps to Climate Proof Development in Africa</li><li>A Toolkit of Resilient Agricultural Responses to Climatic Challenges</li><li>Achieving food security in the face of climate change</li></ul></div><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Climate Smart Agriculture:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook</li><li>Young Professionals' Platform for Agricultural Research for Development</li><li>Interventions for Achieving Sustainability in Tropical Forest and Agricultural Landscapes</li><li>Forage crop production and management</li><li>A Scientific Perspective on Composting</li><li>Organic Resource Management</li><li>Smallholder farmers turn to drought resistant crops</li><li>Community Based Adaptation</li><li>Climate Smart Agriculture</li><li>Conservation Agriculture A manual for farmers and extension workers</li><li>Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming: the heretics view</li><li>A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions and improving nutrition outcomes</li></ul></div><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Smallholder Value Chains:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>Leaping and Learning. Linking Smallholders to Markets</li><li>Africa's Agriculture and Agribusiness Markets Set to Top US$ One Trillion in 2030</li><li>FARA Agricultural Value Chain Member Discussion June 2013</li><li>Growing Africa. Unlocking the Potential For Agribusiness</li><li>Coordinating approaches to women's market engagement</li><li>The importance of internships during a period of unemployment</li></ul></div><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Development:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>'Post -2015' international development goals. Who wants what and why.</li><li>An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development That. Report for the UN Secretary General</li><li>An introduction to the use of randomized controlled trials to evaluate development interventions</li></ul></div><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Health:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>Nutrition 'must be a global priority', says researchers</li><li>Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?</li></ul></div><div><h3><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><strong>Water Management:</strong></span></span></h3><ul><li>Sand dams bank water for dry season in semiarid Kenya</li><li>Community dams aim to build water security in arid lands</li><li>Women, unity, water: Adapting to climate change in improving livelihoods</li></ul></div><div><a><span data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">&nbsp;</span></a><a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.csd-i.org/csdi-blog/2013/6/20/june-top-resources-climate-change-climate-smart-agriculture.html" rel="Link to the special resources newsletter and access these downloadable tools and resources." style="color: #ff0000;" target="_blank">Link to the special resources newsletter and access these downloadable tools and resources.</a></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><div data-mce-style="padding-left: 0px;" style="padding-left: 0px;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Source: </strong>Original post by <a href="http://www.ypard.net/users/tim-magee" target="_blank">Tim Magee</a>, &nbsp;the Executive Director of the&nbsp;</span><a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.csd-i.org/" rel="Center for Sustainable Development" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" target="_blank">Center for Sustainable Development</a>, and<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">&nbsp;the author of </span><a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.csd-i.org/csdi-blog/2013/1/9/book-launch-field-guide-to-community-based-adaptation.html" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" target="_blank">A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation</a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;"> published by Routledge, Oxford, England.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span data-mce-style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">You can&nbsp;<a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.csd-i.org/subscribe/" rel="subscribe" style="color: #ff0000;" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: #ff0000;">subscribe</span></a> to this newsletter or l</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">ike the&nbsp;</span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a data-mce-="" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.facebook.com/CSDi.org" rel="CSDi Facebook" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" target="_blank">CSDi Facebook</a>&nbsp;</span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: helvetica;">page.</span></div><div data-mce-style="padding-left: 0px;" style="padding-left: 0px;">&nbsp;</div><div data-mce-style="padding-left: 0px;" style="padding-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.csd-i.org/" target="_blank">The Center for Sustainable Development </a>specializes in providing sound, evidence-based information, tools and training for humanitarian development professionals worldwide. 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