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Are female or male farmers in Africa more affected by weather variability and extreme shocks?

• 04/16/2024
• Elizabeth Hohenberger

A new activity is helping women farmers access agricultural insurance in rural Kenya.

• 04/11/2024
• Janet Nackoney, Dorah Nesoba

HEARTH is a collaborative public–private partnership approach to sustainable development initiated by USAID that seeks to address biodiversity loss and climate change while supporting the livelihoods of local communities. 

• 03/19/2024
• Sara Carlson, Robert Cohen

The uptake of biodigesters is helping them reduce toxic air pollution and methane emissions, create better farm management practices for better productivity and output, and adapt to climate conditions.

• 03/19/2024
• Muhammad Nurul Amin Siddiquee

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

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

Millions of people lack access to clean and safe water, especially in developing regions like the West Africa Sahel. The situation is even more dire for women and girls, who often bear the burden of fetching water, sometimes walking miles a day to bring fresh water back to their families. 

• 04/04/2023
• Ariel Schindler

With support from the USAID Climate Ready project, award-winning FDB was the first development bank in the South Pacific to be accredited to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world’s largest climate fund. In 2017, it became a Direct Access Entity, meaning it can submit funding proposals to the GCF and oversee the funded projects. Such accreditation is a pathway for countries to gain access to funds that can enable them to act on their own climate change priorities.

• 03/28/2023
• USAID Climate Ready

Published research on the intersection of gender, climate change and livestock production in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is scarce. Some studies may address two of these issues, but hardly any address all three.

• 03/14/2023
• Livestock Systems Innovation Lab

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

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

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

In this Editor’s Pick blog, learn about USAID resources that can help you integrate practices into your work to help improve food security.

• 08/25/2022
• 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