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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:- PDF CLIMAFRICA: Climate change predictions in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and adaptations
- PDF Migration, agriculture and climate change: Reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing resilience
- PDF Atlas of agricultural livelihoods and climate risk of the Lao People's Democratic Republic 2019–2020
- 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
- Website Drought portal - Knowledge resources on integrated drought management
- 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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Cross-cutting topics related to food and agriculture
A wide variety of learning materials and studies for technical audiences including concepts, practices and techniques for food security, systems and production in the context of climate change in food and agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Climate change and food security and nutrition Latin America and the Caribbean (policy guidelines)
- PDF Info Note 2. The State of Food and Agriculture 2016; Climate change, agriculture and food security improved farming practices reduce impacts of ...
- PDF Panorama of food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017: Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 Info Note 1: Climate change, agriculture and food security climate change: what does it mean for ...
- PDF The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges
- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Actions to transform food systems under climate change
- PDF Africa: regional overview of food security and nutrition
- Website Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
- PDF Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability. A call for action
- PDF Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safety
- PDF Enhancing knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation for food security and nutrition
- PDF Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all through transformation of food systems
- PDF Food systems transformation: Developing sustainable, eco-friendly, climate-smart food production along value chains in Africa
- PDF Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- PDF Measuring progress towards sustainable agriculture
- PDF Priorities related to food value chains and the agri-food sector in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
- PDF Pulses and climate change. Revised edition
- PDF Report on the high-level regional dialogue on the mainstreaming of biodiversity in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – 2018
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 : Climate change, agriculture and food security
- PDF The state of food and agriculture: Adaptation
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Overview of FAO's work on climate change
This collection provides a general overview of FAO's work on climate change at the global, regional and national level.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF The work of FAO to enhance national capacities to report on climate change , agriculture, forestry and other land use
- PDF Adaptation in the agriculture sectors: leveraging co-benefits for mitigation and sustainable development
- Website Addressing agricultural sector open burning: Results and lessons learned from the climate and clean air coalition no-burn alternative ...
- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031 - COUNCIL Hundred and Seventieth Session 13-17 June 2022
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031
- PDF FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019
- PDF FAO in the Philippines: Delivering for impact
- PDF FAO’s work on Climate Change. Fisheries, Aquaculture and Climate Change: The role of fisheries and aquaculture in the implementation of the Paris ...
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: Fisheries & aquaculture 2019
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: United Nations Climate Change Conference 2019
- PDF Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- PDF Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
- PDF Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031
- PDF Tackling climate change through rural women’s empowerment
- PDF The state of agricultural commodity markets: Agricultural trade, climate change and food security
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Country experiences with climate-smart agriculture
Climate-smart agriculture country experiences: a variety of cross-cutting activities and practices.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Climate-smart agriculture guidelines for the United Republic of Tanzania
- PDF Sustainable production intensification and value chain development in Africa
- Website The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) for rapid characterisation of households to inform climate smart agriculture interventions: ...
- PDF Assessing the profitability and feasibility of climate-smart agriculture investment in Southern Malawi: Understanding the costs and benefits in a ...
- PDF Barriers, incentives and benefits in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture. Lessons from the MICCA pilot project in Kenya
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021 – Projects from around the world
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture in China
- Website Climate-smart agriculture in action
- Website Climate-smart agriculture success stories: From farming communities around the world
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture. Case studies 2018. Successful approaches from different regions
- PDF Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil, water and nutrient management options in semiarid West Africa: a review of evidence and analysis of stone bunds and zaï techniques
- PDF Eastern Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Scoping Study: Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
- PDF Eastern Africa climate-smart agriculture scoping study: Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
- PDF Enabling farmers to face climate change: Second cycle of the benefit-sharing fund projects
- PDF Ethiopia climate-smart agriculture scoping study
- Website Integrated monitoring framework for climate-smart agriculture: Hoima climate-smart villages, Uganda
- Website Kenya country experience in reducing the GHG balance of the livestock production systems
- PDF Kenya's Tea Sector under Climate Change
- PDF Maasai communities in Kenya adapting to climate change by adopting smart-agriculture practices
- PDF Overview of the scientific, political and financial landscape of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa
- PDF Planning, implementing and evaluating climate-smart sgriculture in smallholder farming systems. The experience of the MICCA pilot projects in ...
- PDF Quesungual & Kuxur Rum: Ancestral agroforestry systems in the Dry Corridor of Central America
- PDF Towards climate-smart agriculture in Egypt
- PDF Transforming agriculture in Africa’s Small Island Developing States
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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:- PDF Solar-powered irrigation systems: A clean-energy, low-emission option for irrigation development and modernization
- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil and land management
- 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 Supplemental irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
- PDF Supporting agricultural extension towards climate-smart agriculture: An overview of existing tools
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Country experiences addressing agriculture in National Adaptation Plans
A wide variety of learning materials and/or country experiences on climate change National Adaptation Plans in the agriculture sector and ultimately on food security.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website From the bottom up: Key lessons learned from Senegal’s national adaptation plan
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP–Ag) Programme: Case study – Kenya
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP–Ag) Programme: Case study – Uruguay
- Website Assessing institutional barriers to National Adaptation Plan (NAP) implementation in Kenya’s agricultural sector
- PDF Brazil: National Adaptation Plan to climate change
- PDF Burkina Faso: National climate change adaptation plan
- PDF Colombia: advancing monitoring and evaluation of adaptation in the agriculture sector
- PDF Conservation agriculture for climate change adaptation in Zambia: A cost-benefit analysis
- PDF Enhancing knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation for food security and nutrition
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-AG) programme: Case study – Thailand
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-AG) programme: Case study – Uganda
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme: Case study – The Philippines
- PDF Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Programme: Highlights report 2015–2018
- PDF Kenya: National Adaptation Plan (2015–2030)
- PDF National Adaptation Plan for climate change impacts in Sri Lanka (2016–2025)
- PDF National Adaptation Plan: Priorities for Agriculture and Food Security in Tunisia
- Website National adaptation planning: Lessons from OECD countries
- PDF Plan national d'adaptation du Sénégal - État des lieux du processus
- PDF Plan national d'adaptation du Sénégal pour le secteur de l’agriculture - État des lieux du processus
- PDF Progress in developing a national monitoring and evaluation system for adaptation in the agriculture sector: a multi-country case study
- PDF Public expenditure analysis for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agriculture sector: a case study of Kenya
- PDF Saint Lucia’s Sectoral Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan for the Agriculture Sector (Agriculture SASAP) 2018–2028
- PDF État des lieux pour le processus d’élaboration du Plan national d’adaptation pour le secteur de l’agriculture au Sénégal
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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:- PDF Climate-smart agriculture: Building resilience to climate change
- Website Economics and policy innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture programme (EPIC) policy briefs
- PDF Improving climate risk transfer and management for climate-smart agriculture: A review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance ...
- PDF Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Call for Action
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture in action: from concepts to investments
- 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
- PDF Enabling advisory services for climate-smart agriculture (CSA): Key elements to foster farmers' adoption of CSA practices
- Website GACSA portal
- Website Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture
- 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
- Website The North America Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance
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Climate change and community-based adaptation
A wide variety of learning materials for technical audiences including concepts, webinars and techniques for climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector and ultimately on food security.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Toolkit for the application of Green Negotiated Territorial Development (GreeNTD)
- Website Climate risk adaptation by smallholder farmers: The roles of trees and agroforestry
- Website Community-Based Climate Climate Solutions for Sustainable Development
- PDF Compendium of community and indigenous strategies for climate change adaptation
- Website Gender and Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation
- PDF Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and climate change in Latin America – Ten scalable experiences of intercultural collaboration
- PDF Mountain Farming Is Family Farming
- PDF Mountain farming systems – seeds for the future
- Website Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tool box
- 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 Small farms, big impacts: Mainstreaming climate change for resilience and food security
- PDF The adaptation advantage: The economic benefits of preparing small-scale farmers for climate change
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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:- PDF Livestock solutions for climate change
- Website Webinars on livestock
- 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
- Website Global agenda for sustainable livestock
- 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
- Website Livestock environmental assessment and performance partnership (LEAP)
- 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
- Website The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Livestock research group
- 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
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Mainstreaming gender in climate-smart agriculture
Studies, implementation analyses and considerations for integrating the gender component in climate smart agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF How to integrate gender issues in climate-smart agriculture projects: Training module
- PDF A gender-responsive approach to climate-smart agriculture: Evidence and guidance for practitioners
- PDF Advancing Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment through Climate-resilient Agriculture: Experiences and Ways Forward from the Joint Programme on Rural ...
- PDF Gender and youth responsiveness considerations for targeting, testing and scaling suitable CSA practices and technologies-Learnings from the ...
- Video Gender dimensions of adopting climate-smart aquaculture
- Website Gender dynamics in the adoption of climate adaptation practices: A case study in the Cauca Department of Colombia
- PDF Gender in climate-smart agriculture. Module 18 for the gender in agriculture sourcebook
- PDF Gender integration into climate-smart agriculture: Tools for data collection and analysis for policy and research
- PDF Good practices for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment in climate-smart agriculture programmes
- PDF Lessons Learned on Participatory Action Research to Adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Options with an Emphasis on Gender and Social Inclusion
- PDF Making agricultural and climate risk insurance gender inclusive: How to improve access to insurance for rural women
- PDF Strengthening gender-responsive climate policies and actions in climate-smart agriculture
- Website Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities
