Climate change adaptation literature on pastoralists often embraces a systems approach that uses aggregate analysis, giving a false assumption of...
Adaptation
USAID has partnered with more than 24 countries to help reduce their vulnerability to weather and climate risks. Through technical assistance, USAID supports countries and communities to build their capacity to independently predict and prepare for climate variability and change so they can effectively deal with associated stresses and minimize losses and disruption. This support helps people sustain their livelihoods and thrive, which promotes stability.
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Features
Climate Smart Cities
USAID helps increase cities' capacity to finance and build public infrastructure and services, engaging diverse local, national, public and private stakeholders. Programs address incentives for and challenges to mobilizing finance, and improve urban services for climate-resilient, low-emission and sustainable economic development.
Building Blocks for Climate Resilient Development
USAID builds host country capacity to reduce risks from climate- and weather-related shocks and stresses. This helps sustain livelihoods and maintain critical services, thereby increasing partner countries’ ability to achieve self-reliance
SERVIR-Global
SERVIR is a joint development initiative of NASA, USAID, premier U.S. research institutions and leading technical organizations around the world. As a network of partners, SERVIR builds capacity in the use of satellite data to empower decision makers to better address critical resilience issues related to food security, water resources, natural disasters, land use, weather and climate. The program is working with more than 45 countries in four regions.
Climate Change, Migration and Conflict
USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program developed a guide on the nexus between climate change, migration and conflict. The guide provides background on relevant literature and an in-depth analysis of the high-profile cases of Darfur and Syria to discern policy-relevant lessons from the latest research.
Drought Forecast & Alert System
Jamaica’s Drought Forecast & Alert System supports farmers in adjusting planting and harvesting schedules to save crops, investments, and livelihoods important to the national economy. The system combines recent rainfall measured by Jamaica’s weather stations with seasonal rainfall forecasts and delivers vital information to farmers via free texts and bulletins. Early success in Jamaica facilitated expanding the system to the broader Caribbean basin where it now serves 40 million residents.
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a nature-based method for climate change adaptation that can reduce the vulnerability of societies and economies to climate stressors. EbA provides flexible and cost-effective approaches that enhance resilience through the improved management and conservation of ecosystems. EbA can be an effective adaptation strategy alone or as an element of broader national, regional and community adaptation plans.
Recent Resources
The USAID/Madagascar Mission requested technical assistance from USAID/Washington through the Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment,...
Climate variability and change is upending many of the assumptions that have been refined over decades and that form the bedrock of development...
Governments around the world have recognized the potentially devastating consequences of climate variability and change to economic development,...
Climate variability and change are increasingly putting the lives and well-being of millions of people at risk. Most climate change adaptation and...
