This guide aims to make the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s material more accessible and usable for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The guide provides decision-makers in SIDS with materials on climate impacts and trends of adaptation and mitigation in small islands. The guide...

The article illustrates the "From the Farm to the Table" approach in Palau undertaken under the PACC project. The approach enables working with local communities to enhance local food processing to add value, improve shelf life of produce, strengthen national marketability and promote the nutritional...

This article features the changes brought about by PACC after Tokelau was hit by a drought in 2011, which led to water rationing for a month. The resulting impact was that 75% of households had to survive with no water, and communal tanks held a...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) developed this guide to assist those responsible for the management of a natural World Heritage site to understand the effects of climate change and offer ideas for identifying and selecting options for responding and adapting to climate...

Building Resilient Communities:  A training Manual for Community Based Climate Change Adaptation provides climate change adaptation trainers and learners with a wealth of practice-based daptation knowledge, and a process to assess, analyze and plan for focused climate change adaptation initiatives within their work profiles.  The...

Climate change impacts go beyond political jurisdictions or geographical boundaries, providing a strong rationale for collaboration and cooperation across countries. To facilitate this process of collaboration, this Policy Roundtable on Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in the Agriculture Sector towards Food Security in Southeast Asia was...

Recent global initiatives have engendered the need of climate-smart concepts to be applied in agriculture as viable options to address food security issues in the future and in cementing its role in adaptation to climate change. Implementing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) at the local level contributes...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 109, April 2014: What is the vision of resilience? Here is an issue that addresses it. The 109th issue of Southasiadisaster.net is titled ‘Envisioning Resilience: Towards Climate Compatible Development’ explores the important theme of ‘Climate Compatible Development’. As a novel approach, climate...

The need for a climate resilient approach to agriculture is critical for India where more than 80 percent agriculturists are small-holder farmers. The insights, lessons, and experiences gained from WOTR’s climate change adaptation project are formulated into a series of Position Papers on various themes....

Sanitation facilities in India are alarmingly poor with over 600 million people (half of India's population) having no access to toilets and open defecation practiced instead. This poses health hazards, raises environmental concerns and leads to water contamination. This is coupled with the Indian Railways’s...