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Assessing climate resilience of vulnerable communities
Tools, studies and methodologies for assessing climate change vulnerability which can help climate change specialists incorporate adaptation planning into different sectors. They also allow farmers and pastoralists to self-assess and express their climate change-related concerns and interests.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Drought portal - Knowledge resources on integrated drought management
- PDF Atlas of agricultural livelihoods and climate risk of the Lao People's Democratic Republic 2019–2020
- PDF CLIMAFRICA: Climate change predictions in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and adaptations
- Website Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- PDF Delivery of climate services to last mile users: challenges and opportunities for scaling
- PDF Migration, agriculture and climate change: Reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing resilience
- PDF Regional workshop on assessing climate change vulnerability in fisheries and aquaculture
- PDF Report of the vulnerability and capacity assessments in coastal and fishing communities in Saint Kitts and Nevis
- PDF Report of vulnerability and capacity assessments in coastal and fishing communities in Grenada
- PDF Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- Website Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- PDF Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao ...
- PDF The relations between climate change and child labour in agriculture
- PDF Toolkit for Increasing Climate Change Resilience
- PDF Vulnerability assessment methodologies: An annotated bibliography for climate change and the fisheries and aquaculture sector
- PDF Vulnerability sourcebook: Risk supplement
- PDF Terminal evaluation of the project "Mainstreaming ecosystem-based approaches to climate-resilient rural livelihoods in vulnerable rural areas ...
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Resources on climate-smart agriculture
A wide variety of materials on concepts, guidelines, policies, practices and approaches related to climate-smart agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website GACSA portal
- Website Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Website The North America Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance
- PDF Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Call for Action
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture in action: from concepts to investments
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture: Building resilience to climate change
- Website Climate-smart landscapes: opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture
- PDF Collaboration on climate-smart agriculture: Agriculture and climate change challenges and opportunities at the global and local level
- PDF Crops and climate change impact briefs
- Website Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture (EPIC) working papers
- Website Economics and policy innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture programme (EPIC) policy briefs
- PDF Enabling advisory services for climate-smart agriculture (CSA): Key elements to foster farmers' adoption of CSA practices
- PDF Improving climate risk transfer and management for climate-smart agriculture: A review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance ...
- Website Introduction to climate-smart agriculture
- PDF Law and governance in support of climate-smart agriculture and international climate change goals
- PDF Leveraging COVID-19 recovery strategies to build climate-smart agrifood systems in developing countries
- PDF Managing climate risk using climate-smart agriculture
- Video Scaling up Investments for Climate Smart Agriculture projects in food systems
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Guidelines on leveraging finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation
This collection contains guidelines on accessing and leveraging finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation - including Green Climate Funds.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Clearinghouse for financing development data - Smarter financing for development data
- Website Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa
- PDF Carbon finance possibilities for agriculture, forestry and other land use projects in a smallholder context
- PDF Climate change mitigation finance for smallholder agriculture: A guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits
- Website Connecting multilateral climate finance to mitigation projects
- Website Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems
- PDF FAO and the Green Climate Fund in brief
- PDF Green Climate Fund handbook for North Macedonia
- PDF Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation Initiative - FAST
- PDF Manual for climate investments of the private sector
- Website Opportunities for Climate Finance in the Livestock Sector: Removing Obstacles and Realizing Potential
- Website The GEF and Climate Change: Catalyzing Transformation
- Video The Green Climate Fund opens up new opportunities for North Macedonia to enhance climate action
- PDF The accreditation process of the Green Climate Fund
- PDF The accreditation process of the Green Climate Fund (with a focus on the Republic of North Macedonia)
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The role of forests in tackling climate change
A wide variety of materials on how forests can play a role in tackling climate change.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website UN-REDD Programme
- PDF The economics of climate change mitigation options in the forest sector
- PDF Building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems
- PDF Capacity Building on National Forest Information Analysis and Reporting for Enhancing Credibility of National Climate Change and REDD+ Implementation
- PDF Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
- PDF Forest and farm producers – climate-change sentinels
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests and climate change
- PDF Forests, rangelands and climate change in southern Africa
- PDF Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands
- PDF The key role of forest and landscape restoration in climate action
- PDF The national forest monitoring system as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile: Applying ...
- PDF Transformational change to reduce deforestation and climate change impacts
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Mitigating climate change through agriculture
The agriculture sector contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions but can also contribute to global mitigation efforts. Studies to inform policy are presented in this collection.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website AgLED Resource Platform
- PDF Achieving transformational change in land use and climate change
- Website Agriculture Methodology
- PDF Climate change mitigation
- PDF Climate change mitigation options in agrifood systems
- PDF Comunidades rurales bajas en carbono: Aumentando la resiliencia y mitigando el cambio climático para el desarrollo rural: una experiencia en Honduras
- Website Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture
- PDF How can agrifood trade support climate change mitigation?
- PDF Low carbon rural communities: Enhancing resilience and mitigating climate change for rural development: one experience in Honduras
- Website Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
- Website Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change
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Understanding the impact of climate change on food systems
This collection provides a basic understanding on how climate change impacts food security and highlights the need to create robust food systems in order to overcome future challenges.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Beyond urban: city-region food systems for resilient and sustainable development
- PDF Actions to transform food systems under climate change
- Website Climate and nutrition considerations in urban food systems
- PDF Climate change and food systems: Global assessments and implications for food security and trade
- PDF Climate change impacts on crops in Sri Lanka
- Video Climate change, biodiversity and nutrition nexus
- PDF Climate change, biodiversity and nutrition nexus: Evidence and emerging policy and programming opportunities
- Website Cultivating Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food Systems
- PDF Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience to Effects of Climate Change in City Region Food Systems
- Website Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate Change
- PDF How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change? Opportunities for innovation in livestock systems
- PDF Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front line of climate change
- PDF Integrating agro-ecological approaches to increase resilience to climate change and improve sustainable food system in West Africa and the Sahel
- Website Making better policies for food systems
- PDF Managing climate change risks in food systems
- PDF Online exchange forum. Building climate-resilient food systems based on the ten agroecology elements
- Website Repurposing Agricultural Policies and Support : Options to Transform Agriculture and Food Systems to Better Serve the Health of People, Economies, ...
- PDF Science, practice, and policy expert dialogue on food systems and resilience: Key priorities for aligning global ecosystem restoration, ...
- PDF Small-scale producers in sustainable agrifood systems transformation
- PDF Strengthening gender-responsive climate policies and actions in agrifood value chains
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture 2016: Climate change, agriculture and food security
- PDF Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus to increase food systems' resilience to climate change and conflict's cascading effects in the ...
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Sustainable livestock to tackle climate change
A wide variety of useful resources to accelerate the sustainable development of livestock supply chains and to support coherent climate actions.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Global agenda for sustainable livestock
- Website Livestock environmental assessment and performance partnership (LEAP)
- Website The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Livestock research group
- PDF Cameroon moves towards low-carbon livestock systems
- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF Climate smart livestock production in Ecuador
- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- PDF Five practical actions towards low-carbon livestock
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- PDF Improving efficiency of small ruminants productions for reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity
- Video Introducing the Global Agenda of Action in support of sustainable livestock sector development
- PDF Livestock and climate change
- PDF Livestock solutions for climate change
- Website Low carbon livestock development in Kyrgyzstan
- PDF Piloting the Climate-Smart Approach in the Livestock Production Systems
- PDF Prioritizing the reduction of methane in livestock climate actions in East Africa
- PDF Tackling climate change through livestock
- PDF The role of animal health in national climate commitments
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- PDF Understanding the role of ruminant systems on greenhouse gas emissions and soil health in selected Central Asian countries
- Website Webinars on livestock
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Combating drought and desertification
Resources related to combating drought and desertification.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Drought portal - Knowledge resources on integrated drought management
- PDF A rapid review of effective financing for policy, implementation and partnerships addressing drought risks
- PDF Climate Change and Land
- PDF Drought in the Horn of Africa: Progress report on the rapid response and mitigation plan to avert a humanitarian catastrophe
- PDF Handbook of drought indicators and indices
- PDF Proactive approaches to drought preparedness – Where are we now and where do we go from here?
- Video RECLIMA contributes to minimizing desertification and drought in El Salvador
- Website UNCCD capacity building training fair Georgetown (Guyana) 25–26 Jan 2019 – Presentations
- PDF United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund Project fact sheet: Emergency livelihood support to drought-affected communities in Namibia
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Enhancing the implementation of community-based adaptation to climate change
A range of case studies, frameworks, and methodologies for implementing best practices for community-based adaptation to climate changeThe most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Community-based adaptation exchange (CBA-X)
- PDF Can food aid relax farmers’ constraints to adopting climate-adaptive agricultural practices?
- PDF Caribbean Strategy for Climate-Resilient Forests and Rural Livelihoods
- PDF Climate change impact on crop production in Sri Lanka
- Website Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in action: The case of forestry
- PDF Final evaluation of the project "Strengthening resilience to climate change through integrated agricultural and pastoral management in the ...
- PDF Framework of milestones and indicators for community-based adaptation
- Website Participatory survey methods for gathering information
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Resources and databases on the National Adaptation Programmes and Plans
A wide variety of databases and platforms with adaptation activities, projects and plans.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:
