The food price crisis of 2008 has led to the re-emergence of debates about global food security (e.g. Wiggins, 2008) and its impact on prospects for achieving the first  Millennium Development Goal (MDG): to end poverty and hunger. On top of a number of shorter-term...

 The briefing paper, produced by a network of civil society organizations monitoring the climate change talks, highlights the serious threats posed by climate change to agriculture. Decreased crop production due to climate change has the potential to increase food prices and food insecurity, as well...

Companies are finding it difficult to fully incorporate measures of climate risks into their strategy and operations, according to a report by the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam and the World Resources Institute.

 A new study by RECOFTC, the ASEAN Social Forestry Network, and SDC shows the Philippines and Viet Nam were the only countries in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to record positive changes in their forest cover from 2005 to 2010. Within the...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues for the Pacific Island countries (PICs). The impacts of climate variability  and  extreme events (cyclones, floods, droughts, sea level rise, and  other natural disasters) are rapidly  pushing  people beyond  their coping range. The capacity to mitigate the impacts of climate change...

  Watersheds are critical to economic development and environmental protection in Southeast Asia, and are likely to be affected by future climate change. This project assessed the impacts of climate change and associated land use and cover change on water resources, forest ecosystems, and social systems of watersheds...

With barriers such as extremely fragile ecological conditions, severe water shortage, few financial resources, poor infrastructure, low levels of education, and little access to technology and markets, Northwestern China has been suffering from climate variations and will experience severe impacts of climate change on food production, water resources,...

This research studied the impact of climate change on hydrological condition and rain-fed agriculture in Southeast Asia with focus on the lower Mekong River basin as well as assessed vulnerability and adaptation of rain-fed farmers to climate change impact. In this study, future climate scenarios were developed using...

Apart from intraseasonal and interannual variability in climate, extreme weather events such as cyclones, prolonged dry spells, and intense rainfall are known to cause adverse effects such as droughts and floods in tropical Asia. The 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001) warned that...

This evaluation looks at Oxfam GB’s global climate change campaign with in-depth case studies from Bangladesh, South Africa and the UK. The evaluation covers the period from March 2008 to December 2009, although the majority of available documentation and evidence is from 2009.