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When the Climate Strategy launched, Climatelinks built a hub as an easy way for climate and development professionals to find Climate Strategy resources. In this blog you will find a compilation of some of the most popular resources on the Climatelinks Climate Strategy hub.

• 04/21/2023
• Climatelinks

Did you miss the ‘USAID at COP27’ newsletter? We’ve got you covered with the recap below.

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Droughts and floods, more intense storms, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels are devastating communities around the world, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. In response to the severe and urgent global climate crisis, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) supports developing countries and communities around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.

• 11/08/2022
• Tedi Rabold

In the fight against climate change, the private sector plays a strategic role in addressing development challenges. This blog describes how USAID partners with the private sector to consult, strategize, align, collaborate, and implement technological, financial, or strategic solutions to conservation, adaptation, and mitigation challenges.

• 10/25/2022
• Tedi Rabold

Climate adaptation strategies should make more concerted efforts to incorporate the multi-dimensional nature of women’s empowerment, as this research shows the important role of women’s decision-making in strengthening agricultural resilience to climate change.

• 09/28/2022
• Elizabeth Bryan, Alex De Pinto, Greg Seymour, Prapti Bhandary, Francesca Edralin

This blog highlights USAID’s work that is already underway to strengthen the resilience of women farmers through insurance and finance, as well as key learnings from CARE and FAO’s work in the space of gender and climate-smart agriculture.

• 08/30/2022
• Sophie Schrader

This blog is part 1 in the Climate-Smart Agriculture and USAID 2022-2030 Climate Strategy Webinar recap blog series.

• 08/24/2022
• Sophie Schrader

FEWS NET is the global gold standard for food insecurity early warning.

• 03/31/2022
• Kiersten Johnson, James P. Verdin

During 2020 and 2021, a multiyear La Niña event, strengthened by climate change, has helped produce an exceptional three-season drought. As the region enters a long dry season, temperatures of the land’s surface are well-above normal and vegetation is desiccated.

• 02/11/2022
• Kiersten Johnson

Between 2014 and 2015, Jamaica experienced one of the worst seasons of drought in recent history. The impact on the Jamaican economy, especially rural livelihoods, was devastating. According to reports, the annual agricultural production declined by 30 percent from 2013 to 2014. This, along with brush fires, resulted in a $J1 billion ($6.5 million) loss for the economy.

• 11/11/2021
• Kimberly Weller

To strengthen communities' access to and management of water and pasture, USAID EKISIL—which means “peace” in the local language of Karamoja—initiated climate risk management (CRM) actions in the Abim, Kaabong, Kotido, and Moroto districts

• 10/13/2021
• Lorine Giangola, Leah Quin

Brazil is one of the six countries of the Amazon basin covered by SERVIR-Amazonia, including Colombia, Peru, Guyana, Ecuador, Suriname.

• 04/23/2021
• SERVIR Global

The Climatelinks photo contest received an impressive total of 170 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 40 countries.

• 12/03/2019
• Steve Hardeman