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Learning materials on ecosystem-based adaptation in the agriculture sector
Ecosystem-based adaptation is a nature-based solution for building the resilience of the food and agriculture sector to climate change. The materials presented in this section include studies, guidelines and policies for evaluating and valuing the benefits, costs and impacts of ecosystem-based adaptation measures.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Working with nature to adapt to a changing climate
- Website Building Climate Resilience through Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning
- PDF Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate
- PDF Ecosystem-based adaptation in the agriculture sector: A nature-based solution for building the resilience of the food and agriculture sector to ...
- PDF Forest-based adaptation: transformational adaptation through forests and trees
- Website Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation into National Adaptation Plans: Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines
- PDF Revisión científica del impacto del cambio climático en las plagas de las plantas
- PDF Scientific review of the impact of climate change on plant pests: A global challenge to prevent and mitigate plant-pest risks in agriculture, ...
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Building capacity for climate-smart agriculture
A wide variety of training materials, webinars, and reports on climate-smart agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Climate change adaptation and mitigation in fisheries and aquaculture
- Website Climate-smart crop production
- Website Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
- Website Climate-smart forestry
- Website Water management for climate-smart agriculture
- PDF Climate Action for Agriculture: Strengthening the role of scientific foresight and climate-smart agriculture in addressing NDC priorities
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture training manual: a reference manual for agricultural extension agents
- Website Climate-smart agriculture, loss of biodiversity, and the uncertainties associated with climate change
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture: A call for action. Workshop proceedings
- PDF Guide pour un cursus en agriculture intelligente face au climat (AIC) dans les programmes d’enseignement en Afrique de l’ouest francophone
- Video Understanding Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Website Webinar: climate-smart agriculture
- Website Webinars on advisory services for climate-smart agriculture
- Website Webinars on index-based insurance for risk management in climate-smart agriculture
- Website Webinars on irrigation in climate-smart agriculture
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Building capacity for climate change adaptation
E-learning courses, webinars, and reports to build capacity in climate change adaptation.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Incorporating climate change considerations into agricultural investment programmes
- PDF Adapting to climate variability and change
- Website Agroforestry and conservation agriculture webinar series
- PDF Bringing climate change adaptation into farmer field schools
- PDF Report of the Regional Training Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation Planning
- Website Scaling up of adaptation in the agricultural sectors (SAAS) webinar series
- PDF Soluciones agroambientales para la agenda de desarrollo en países del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA). Experiencias de los países ...
- PDF State of the global climate 2020
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 : Climate change, agriculture and food security
- PDF Youth in motion for climate action! A compilation of youth initiatives in agriculture to address the impacts of climate change
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Tenure issues and natural disasters
Learning materials explaining the relationship of tenure rights and natural disasters and describing solutions that can support a disaster management process through improved prevention, preparedness, and emergency response.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Addressing tenure issues in the context of natural disasters
- PDF Assessing and responding to land tenure issues in disaster risk management
- PDF Climate change and tenure rights: Interlinked challenges in Cambodia
- PDF Climate change and tenure rights: Interlinked challenges in China
- PDF Climate change and tenure rights: Interlinked challenges in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- PDF Climate change and tenure rights: Interlinked challenges in Myanmar
- PDF Climate change and tenure rights: Interlinked challenges in Viet Nam
- PDF Technical Guide on the Integration of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the ...
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Damage and loss
This collection introduces the concept of "loss and damage" caused by climate change-related effects. It is focused on the agriculture sector and the environmental aspects.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Using FAO methodology to compute Damage and Loss
- PDF Climate Finance for Addressing Loss and Damage
- PDF Damage and losses due to weather and climate-related disasters in agricultural sectors
- Website Data and Digital Maturity for Disaster Risk Reduction: Informing the Next Generation of Disaster Loss and Damage Databases
- PDF FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture
- Website Introduction to loss and damage
- Website Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
- PDF Notes on an information system on damage and losses from disasters in agriculture, fisheries and forestry
- PDF The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
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Tools for climate and disaster risk assessment
A wide variety of learning materials for technical audiences including toolkits, concepts, policies, practices, webinars and techniques for ensuring that risks are assessed and managed to support mainstreaming of climate and disaster resilience into key development policies, programmes, and projects in the agriculture sector and ultimately food security.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Introduction to FAO's damage and loss assessment methodology
- Website Screening for climate change and disaster risks in development projects
- Website Agricultural Adaptation (AgriAdapt) Tool
- PDF Building resilience into watersheds
- Other Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI) tool
- Website Climate Risk Toolbox
- PDF Climate Risk Toolbox – Guiding material for climate risk screening
- Website Climate and disaster risk screening tools
- PDF Climate resilient practices. Typology and guiding material for climate risk screening
- PDF Climate risk assessment at community level in the agriculture sector
- PDF Disaster risk management systems analysis: A guidebook
- PDF FAO’s Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to monitor the Sendai Framework’s Indicator C2 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture
- Website Integrating Climate Change and Natural Disasters in the Economic Analysis of Projects : A Disaster and Climate Risk Stress Test Methodology
- PDF Mainstreaming climate risk management into FAO programming
- PDF National and policy climate and disaster risk screening tool
- PDF Overview of FAO’s damage and loss assessment methodology e-learning course
- PDF The livelihood assessment toolkit. Analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people
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Building capacity for more transparent greenhouse gas inventories
A wide variety of learning materials, case studies, etc. to build capacity in estimating greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector and preparing national GHG inventories.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
- PDF Estimating GHG in agriculture: A manual to address data requirements for developing countries
- PDF Greenhouse gas assessment and mitigation in agriculture: concepts, methods and simulation tools
- Website Guide for peer review of national GHG inventories
- PDF The adoption of tier 2 methodology for enteric fermentation: survey result (March 2021)
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory for agriculture
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory for land use
- Website U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems
- PDF Understanding countries’ status and challenges for the estimation of carbon stock changes from mineral soils in national greenhouse gas ...
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Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
E-learning courses, webinars and various materials to better understand the importance of forest-related topics under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement
- PDF Boosting transparency of forest data for climate action
- PDF Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest Sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: One year in numbers
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: Two years in numbers.
- PDF Case Study Chile: The National Forest Monitoring System as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile
- PDF Case study Bangladesh: An integrated national forest monitoring system for sustainable forest management and conservation in Bangladesh
- PDF Case study Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s progress in developing a national land use, land cover and ecosystems monitoring system
- PDF Case study Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a national forest monitoring system to promote ...
- PDF Case study Ghana: Establishing a multi-purpose national forest monitoring system to improve land use monitoring capacities in Ghana
- PDF Case study Papua New Guinea: National forest monitoring system provides better data, and enhances capacity in Papua New Guinea
- PDF Enhancing forest targets and measures in nationally determined contributions
- Video Establishing and implementing a sustainable National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS): effects on the forest sector of a country
- Video Establishing and implementing sustainable national forest monitoring systems
- Website Forest Data and Transparency 'Zoom in' on the Experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Video Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action
- Video Forest data and transparency: ‘Zoom’ in on Costa Rica’s experience”
- Video Forest data for climate action: the importance of legal and institutional frameworks
- Video From Measurement, Reporting and Verification to the Reinforced Transparency Framework
- PDF From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
- Video How to prepare for the transition from the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) framework
- PDF Inventarios Forestales Nacionales de América Latina y el Caribe: Hacia la armonización de la información forestal.
- Video Learning from experience to increase forest data transparency for climate action
- PDF Legal assessment to set up and operationalize a national forest monitoring system
- Website Mind the gap: Addressing national forest inventory capacity needs to support climate action
- Video Open And Transparent Forest Data: Innovation And Technology For Climate Action
- Website Open and Transparent: Forest data setting the course for green future under the Paris Agreement
- PDF Strengthening national forest monitoring systems through a comprehensive capacity needs assessment
- PDF Towards open and transparent forest data for climate action
- PDF What is the forest area of Lao People's Democratic Republic?
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Building capacity on greenhouse gas inventories
A wide variety of learning materials for technical audiences to enhance capacity in estimating greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector and in preparing a national GHG inventory.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Assessing uncertainties in the national greenhouse gas inventory: a focus on land use
- Website Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method
- Website Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory for agriculture
- Website The national greenhouse gas inventory for land use
- PDF Estimating GHG in agriculture: A manual to address data requirements for developing countries
- Website Greenhouse gas assessment and mitigation in agriculture: concepts, methods and simulation tools
- Website IGES biennial update report: Database
- Website Joint OCB/GSP Training workshop for reporting soil Carbon Stock Change in national greenhouse gas inventories
- PDF Understanding countries’ status and challenges for the estimation of carbon stock changes from mineral soils in national greenhouse gas ...
- Website Workshop materials on greenhouse gas inventory systems
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Applying the climate-smart approach
Studies describing the application of the climate-smart approach to natural resources and agriculture management systems.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil and land management
- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Climate-smart forestry
- PDF Compendium on climate-smart irrigation: Concepts, evidence and options for a climate-smart approach to improving the performance of irrigated ...
- PDF Measuring climate co-benefits of livestock development in Cameroon
- PDF Solar-powered irrigation systems: A clean-energy, low-emission option for irrigation development and modernization
- PDF Supplemental irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
- PDF Supporting agricultural extension towards climate-smart agriculture: An overview of existing tools