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In Bangladesh’s Khulna District, Sahena Khatun, her husband and 15-year-old son had long survived on just her husband's farming income, the equivalent of $70 a month. Her own attempts to bolster her family’s income and nutrition through traditional farming had proved futile due to substandard inputs and lack of good agricultural practices.

• 06/05/2023
• Agrilinks

The Increasing Fisheries Sustainability for Resilience activity is one of 20 activities doing just that by empowering Cambodians with the knowledge to assess changes in the existing fishery to make any needed alterations in the fishing effort.

• 01/24/2023
• Alaina Dismukes

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience (MRR Innovation Lab) researchers are returning to the sites of their prior program evaluations where people who took part in the studies have since then been struck by disaster.

• 01/18/2023
• MRR Innovation Lab

This blog is part of the Benefits of Climate Risk Management blog series that aims to provide evidence-based deep dives into USAID case studies. A USAID-funded Cambodia fisheries project outperformed productivity goals after incorporating climate-sensitive design, including planning for increased risk of drought and extreme heat events.

• 04/13/2021
• Jamie Carson, Elizabeth Hutchison

Farmers around the world increasingly rely on long-range weather forecasts when planning their crops. Traditional timing for planting is no longer as reliable as it used to be, and neither are the rains, thanks to shifts in climate patterns.

• 09/30/2019
• Christine Chumbler

To mitigate the food security and economic risks of South Asia’s frequent and intense droughts, scientists and policymakers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) recently joined forces to launch an innovative decision support and agricultural planning system.

• 09/20/2019
• Agrilinks Team

The Climate Hazards Center (CHC) has been using the CHC Early Estimates for agroclimatological monitoring and forecast-plus-observation rainfall scenarios since late 2018. The CHC Early Estimates are regional maps that show rainfall conditions for multiple accumulation periods, which are useful for agroclimatic monitoring.

• 09/05/2019
• Agrilinks Team

CREL, which worked its magic in four ecosystems — forest protected areas, wetlands and ecologically critical areas of Bangladesh — is closing after six successful years.

• 10/23/2018
• Winrock International

To update an old development adage, rather than teaching a person to fish, the USAID/Philippines Ecosystems Improved for Sustainable Fisheries (ECOFISH) project sought to teach fishing communities how much to fish, where to fish and how to monitor fish in order to manage their wild fish resources sustainably.  

• 01/04/2018
• Barbara Best, Rebecca Guieb

“Climate work is practical, common-sense, good development,” said Carrie Thompson, deputy assistant administrator at the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

• 12/29/2016
• Graham Norwood