The handbook provides guidance for identifying the most effective technology options for poverty reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation.  

The working paper investigates how farming practices are being modified to deal with a changing environment, and the constraints and opportunities these changes pose for both men and women. The field research covered three main research priorities for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,...

Amiera Sawas, a PhD researcher from King’s College London, reflects on her experience of working with flood-affected communities in the Sindh province of Pakistan.   Read more: http://cdkn.org/2012/07/disaster-proofing-your-village-before-the-floods-%E2%80%93-the-case-of-sindh-pakistan/?loclang=en_gb : http://cdkn.org/2012/07/disaster-proofing-your-village-before-the-floods-%E2%80%93-the-case-of-sindh-pakistan/?loclang=en_gb

In this paper, lead author Roehlano Briones assesses the effectiveness of ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) as a mechanism for addressing food security in light of the rising challenges of climate change and price volatility.

Elizabeth Colebourn, CDKN Asia Project Manager, reports from a CDKN-supported retreat for influential editors from South Asia on the opportunities and challenges of reporting on climate change. CDKN has recognized that the media has the potential to play an important role in the policy-making process...

The paper analyses the potential criteria for allocating international funding for adaptation to climate change. It also asks whether ‘equity’ and ‘cost-effectiveness’ are two contradictory principles, or if ways can be found to reconcile both these in multilateral adaptation finance.     Read more: http://www.cis.ethz.ch/publications/publications/Equity_CISwp73.pdf...

Tom Mitchell, Theme Leader, Climate-related Disaster Risk Management, CDKN, writes in a new article for the CDKN website on the scientific community’s new willingness to tie weather events to climate change. 

Increase in rainfall and temperature due to climate change could prove beneficial for South-East Asian agriculture, a study suggests, contradicting more common expectations that a warmer planet will reduce agricultural productivity in the region. Researchers say precipitation changes in Cambodia and Vietnam will be so...

Developing countries need at least $1000 billion a year to carry out climate actions, according to a speaker at the UNFCCC workshop on climate finance in July. This article is on the workshop’s theme of the financing needs of developing countries.

In coping with climate impacts, migration is far from being a problem, and could be part of the solution according to one expert. If prepared for and managed, migration could prove one of the most effective means of adapting to climate change and building resilience...