Tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon has been the mainstay of India’s seafood exports and has immense potential as a foreign exchange earner. It also has substantial contribution towards socio-economic development in terms of income and employment. Shrimp aquaculture is threatened by changes in temperature, precipitation, drought and storms/floods...

Extensive Shrimp farming on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam is an important source of income and livelihood for many small scale farmers. This sector has been influenced by international market trends, fluctuating prices, diseases outbreaks and last but not the least climate variability in the...

The Mekong Delta is the ‘food basket’ of Vietnam, and is of significance both from a production (volume and economic) and livelihood view points. Vietnam is prone to extreme weather events. Cyclones regularly impact Vietnam raising sea levels and sending saline storm surges up estuaries....

The Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network(ELAN) has selected and made available a first set ofseven case studies on good practices in nature-basedclimate change adaptation. http://elanadapt.net/good-practices Following are the topics of the sevencase studies:• Land rehabilitation on the central plateau ofBurkina Faso and building resilience to...

The 3H Plain is a critical part of China’s agricultural economy. It contains 26% of the country’s arable land and represents almost one third (32.8%) of all the land under cultivation. At the same time, this is an area of China that is already water...

The 3H Plain is a critical part of China’s agricultural economy. It contains 26% of the country’s arable land and represents almost one third (32.8%) of all the land under cultivation. At the same time, this is an area of China that is already water...

The climate is changing and communities in some countries are already feeling the heat. Climate information in the form of trends and forecasts, combined with tried and tested disaster risk reduction measures, can help anticipate disasters before they happen and enable communities to prepare for...

The Asia Pacific zone covers 45 countries and experiences 79% of the world’s disaster related fatalities. Increasing climate risk threatens hard-earned development gains. A strategy for dealing with this is to better understand and pre-empt climate related hazards through systematic use of climate information available...

Two-day seminar hosted by the Fujian Red Cross in Fuzhou 27 – 28 July 2010, is part of the project “Disaster Risk Reduction and Integrated Climate Change Adaptation – a National Model for a Community Context in the People’s Republic of China”, implemented by the...

This is the story of one Red Cross society’s effort to incorporate climate change into its regular work, and what it found  on Pileni island – remote even by the standards of the Solomon Islands. In 2010 the Solomon Islands Red Cross (SIRC) began working with...