Agricultural experts, frustrated with the slow progress on food security issues in climate talks, have called on scientists to aggressively promote rapid, global action onsustainable agriculture.

The Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) spreads across a vast region that includes remote parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and contiguous areas of Nepal and India. This area is historically, ecologically, and culturally interconnected; it is the source of four of Asia’s most...

The aim of this document is to provide a regularly updated overview of key pieces of adaptation work relevant to marine and coastal stakeholders. Whilst many of the examples cited are not specifically about marine or coastal issues, they provide useful guidance that is applicable...

This best practices guidance document is intended to help development professionals and government officials who are involved in agricultural and rural development investment operations to mainstream climate change considerations in program identification, design and supervision.

The Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP), implemented in Africa by CARE International, is supporting communities and local governments to use seasonal climate forecasts and information on climatic uncertainty for decision making, as part of the community-based adaptation (CBA) approach.  

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...

Understanding the cost associated with climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture is important for mobilising institutional support and providing timely resources to improve resilience and adaptive capacities. Top-down national estimates of adaptation costs carry a risk of mismatching the availability of funds with what is...

Janot Mendler de Suarez is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Games for a New Climate task force at the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, USA.  Janot is collaborating with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, which received CDKN...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both climate adaptation policy and the estimation of potential climate damages. It comprises papers that estimate the short- and long-run economic impacts of weather-related extreme events as well as studies...

In 2006, when Asian Development Bank (ADB) decided to launch a multi-million dollar rural water project in eastern and north central regions of Sri Lanka, there was one overriding requirement–women had to be placed in key positions. As a result, experts say, the $263 million...