Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook and Platform
This Sourcebook provides a wide range of knowledge and expertise to support actors to make the agricultural sectors (crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) more sustainable and productive.
Enhancing resilience using Indigenous Fodder Trees
This policy brief describes how Indigenous Fodder Trees can be used to improve food security and enhance the climate resilience of livestock herders.
Climate information services in Senegal
This study analyzed experiences and lessons learned in Senegal, where various climate information services products attempted to effectively involve producers, technicians and policy‐makers.
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa (2nd Edition)
An updated version of the popular handbook outlining projected climate change, sectoral impacts and responses (adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and accessing climate finance) in southern Africa
Enhancing Gambian Women Livestock Farmers' Adaptation Strategies
This study examined climate change adaptation issues confronting women livestock farmers in The Gambia. Specific focus was on the feeding and breeding strategies in smallholder farming systems.
Climate Change Impacts on Livestock
A new working paper by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) summarizes what we know around climate impacts on livestock systems in Africa.
Prioritizing Investments in Climate-Smart Agriculture in Guatemala
This poster is one of the posters featured at the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 24-30 2015.
Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience To Climate Change in Afghanistan
"Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience To Climate Change in Afghanistan (LDCF-1)" is the first Full-size GEF project in Afghanistan for Climate Change Adaptation.
Using Radio to Improve Local Responses to Climate Variability
Livelihoods in high mountain areas are made more precarious by climate vulnerability. This case study focuses on radio's contribution to sustainable mountain livelihoods in the Peruvian Andes.
CARIAA
The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in three climate change hot spots.
Sustainable livestock production in Cuba
A bullock in Camugüey, Cuba. © Carol Foil / flickr.com / creative commons
Camagüey province is the driest region of Cuba, and the impacts of climate change are making it...
Using Mobile Phones to Reduce the Adversities of Climate Change in Rural Nepal
The initiative aims to build resilience by improving the livelihood assets of vulnerable communities, and the work reported here focuses on the rural communities around South-Central Nepal.
Livestock systems, vulnerability and climate change – Insights from the grass roots
Climate change is already happening and its effects, particularly on rural communities in India, are adverse. There is a need to highlight key issues and understand the...
Climate variability and vulnerability research
Climate research has so far been focusing most of its attention on the impacts from higher mean temperatures worldwide. According to a new research review this has limited our understanding on how...
Glensaugh: Improving Climate Resilience
Glensaugh is an experimental farm that has implemented several measures aimed at reducing the impact of future climate change. These measures include the creation of renewable...
Key Final Results
Report on Key Final Results
Overall Project DescriptionThe USAID Mekong ARCC project is a five-year program (2011-2016) funded by the USAID Regional Development...
Local Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in West Africa
This article aims to contribute to identifying, capitalizing and disseminating the best local knowledge to adapt to climate variability and climate change.
climate change innovations in Chololo Ecovillage
This report summarises the outcomes of a community workshop held in Chololo on 2 August 2013.
The purpose of the workshop was to assess the effectiveness, gender friendliness, and...
Improving Pasture Management and Livestock Rearing
Livestock rearing is the major component of arid agriculture. It plays an integral role in Rajasthan, where the people and their land are closely bound up with livestock rearing and...
Rain Water Harvesting and Agroforestry
The majority of people in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, depend on rainfed agriculture and livestock for their livelihoods. Water for agriculture and livestock has always been a major...
ECR: Agriculture
How exposed is UK agriculture to climate change?
Key climate risks facing the sector are changes in average climate conditions, changes to the inherent variability of...
Climate-smart agriculture put into practice in smallholder dairy development project in Kenya
This article will introduce the MICCA pilot project in Kenya in the East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) in Kaptumo, where smallholder dairy farmers are integrating climate-smart practices...
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