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Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases, threatening nearly half of the global population today.

• 06/29/2021
• Tedi Rabold

Amid growing recognition that climate change is not just an environmental issue, but a concern in all sectors, USAID’s adaptation investments are helping the Agency and its partners more effectively assess, plan for, and manage climate risks.

• 12/19/2019
• Erin Martin

As residents of an island nation, Jamaicans are all too aware of the risks, and realities, of climate change. More than half of the population lives within a mile of the coast; most of the those who live inland are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods.

• 12/02/2019
• Christine Chumbler

Increasingly, cities are taking control of assessing local risks associated with climate change and implementing adaptation activities to build the resilience of their residents, economy, and infrastructure.

• 08/29/2019
• Owen Scott

Rivers are the world’s main source of clean drinking water, and their economic and environmental value are fundamental to the health of people and ecosystems. However, river basins face interrelated challenges — population growth, industrialization, urbanization, land use changes (including deforestation and land degradation), and changes in water quantity and quality.

• 07/17/2019
• Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio

The Mara River winds for nearly 14 thousand kilometers from the Mau forest in Kenya to Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It supports huge wildlife populations in two key conservation areas (the Masai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park) described as “the eighth wonder of the world.”

• 01/30/2019
• Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio

The September Adaptation Community Meeting brought together experts from the USAID Office of Energy and Infrastructure, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the USAID Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project, and the USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) project.

• 10/26/2018
• Joslin Isaacson

During the July Adaptation Community Meeting, SERVIR presented its approach to delivering “space to village”: equipping decision-makers with geospatial tools, and the capacity to use them, in response to locally expressed needs.

• 10/17/2018
• Katherine Casey

USAID’s investments in climate services empower farmers to make more informed management decisions.

• 03/29/2018
• Climatelinks

To help decision makers target resources to areas of Sub-Saharan Africa where they are needed most, USAID is supporting a hotspots mapping initiative to identify places where the potential for weather variability and climate change pose the gravest threat to human health.

• 04/19/2017
• Climatelinks