Heat stress in Maharashtra, India
This policy brief examines the vulnerability of communities living in semi-arid Maharashtra to be negatively affected by heat-related stress and the increasing health implications thereof.
The Glacier Trust
The Glacier Trust is a UK based charity that works in partnership with Nepali NGOs to enable climate change adaptation in the Himalayas. Our work is innovative, delivered in partnership and tailore
Heat Stress, Vulnerability and health impacts
This working paper from ASSAR examines vulnerability of rural communities to heat stress in the semi-arid villages in Maharashtra state in India.
Financial services for resilience: how to assess the impacts?
This report explores the implementation of innovative methodologies to measure the effect of financial services on people's resilience in Niger.
Sri Lanka: Consolidated Livelihood Exercise for Analysing Resilience
This case study focuses on livelihood mapping in rural areas in Sri Lanka to better understand spatial patterns of livelihood and vulnerability.
TransRe - Building resilience through translocality.
The TransRe project seeks to decipher the relations between migration, translocality and social resilience to climate change based on case studies carried out in Thailand and migration destinations.
Observatório do Meio Rural
Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) is a private non-profit organization that looks to contribute to agricultural and rural development in Mozambique in an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective
Conservation Agriculture in Karamoja, Uganda
The Conservation Agriculture project aims to increase household food security and income security through innovative agriculture and the use of VSLAs/VICOBA among the Dodoth people in Uganda.
iDE
iDE creates income and livelihood opportunities for poor, rural households by building market systems that increase incomes through scaling transformative products, services and technologies in agr
Ministry of Agriculture and Forests
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forests was established in April 1985 with the aim of sustainabley managing natural resources for the equitable social and economic well being of the Bhutanese peopl
Enhancers of child nutritional status in post-flood rural settings
This article explores the role of education in reducing the societal impacts of extreme flood events, particularly with regards to post-flood child undernutrition.
Barefoot College India
Climate change adaptation readiness in the ASEAN countries
This review looks at the steps taken so far to reduce rural populations’ vulnerability in ASEAN countries, and identifies gaps and key concerns for furture research, action and policy development
Mali Folkecenter
Mali-Folkecenter's mission is to promote the sustainable management of natural resources and the use of these resources to catalyse local economic growth & sustainable development by working in
Urban-rural water allocations in semi-arid lands
This report provides an overview of the issue of water allocation in Burkina Faso, specifically how/where Ouagadougou, sources its water, as an example of the ‘urban-rural water interface’.
TransRe - Building Resilience Through Translocality. Climate Change, Migration and Social Resilience of Rural Communities in Thailand.
The TransRe project offers a fresh perspective on the environment-migration nexus.
Local Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in West Africa
In West Africa, production systems are vulnerable and are subject to regular negative effects of natural degradation processes. These systems are particularly vulnerable to climate...
Adaptation to climate change through alternative livelihoods in community forestry
Poor, rural communities in Cambodia are highly vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change due to their low adaptive capacity.
According to Cambodia's...
Managing climate risks and enhancing resilience in Nepal
Nepal is one of the global "hot spots" for natural disasters and climate change impacts. The poorest groups of people reside in the rural areas which are usually hit...
