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During its six years, the USAID Agricultural Growth and Rural Opportunities (USAID AGRO) Activity solidified and sustained its achievements by fully integrating climate risk management (CRM) into its agricultural development approach.

• 08/25/2021
• Lorine Giangola, David Cooley

The ENGIE Acquisition: With USAID Support, an Off-Grid Solar Fenix Rises

• 08/11/2021
• Taha Gaya

Learn how Youth Climate Communicator Dainalyn Swaby is rallying young Jamaicans to make climate change a priority in their livelihoods.

• 08/10/2021
• Kimberly Weller

3 ways USAID helps El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change

• 08/03/2021
• USAID

March marks the onset of the dry and hot season in Thailand. In the region, dry vegetation coupled with small human-made fires often result in uncontrolled forest fires. Agricultural burning and forest fires, including transboundary haze, contribute to high levels of pollution.

• 07/22/2021
• Ankit Joshi

Climate change and population growth are increasing concerns for global food security. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached record high levels and the world is currently on track to overshoot the targets of the Paris Agreement.

• 07/21/2021
• Willy Pradel and Marcel Gatto for AgriLinks

Poor air quality and climate change are major challenges facing Nepal. Air pollution poses the second highest risk factor for death and disability in the country, behind only malnutrition. Meanwhile, scientists predict that Nepal will be especially vulnerable to climate change over the next century.

• 07/15/2021
• USAID

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

• 06/29/2021
• Tedi Rabold

Agricultural market systems are transforming because of climate change. Although each transformation is unique, they occur in places where there are adequate market systems and institutional capacity to enable them to adapt.

• 06/23/2021
• Richard Choularton

Students from St. Scholastica Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya studied the links between weather patterns and malaria occurrences using mosquito habitat mapping within the Lake Victoria region in Kenya.

• 06/09/2021
• Climatelinks

It’s not unusual to see stretches of dry land in Niger, West Africa. The Saharan terrain is often baked by the scorching sun. However, for 18 year-old Rimana Issoufou Hassane Mayak, the climate she has known all her life is changing. And, as she makes her way to school, she notices something different almost every day.

• 05/18/2021
• Boubacar Mainassara Abdoul Aziz, Assiya Alhassane Chekaraou

Monitoring forest loss remotely is needed for formulating policies and strategies to address deforestation.

• 04/29/2021
• Ankit Joshi

Climate mitigation and support for the Government of South Africa’s green growth agenda were central to the conception of USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Program (SA-LED).

• 04/21/2021
• Peter Nash

Climate adaptation can take many forms, ranging from disaster risk reduction to natural resources management, according to the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• 04/14/2021
• Steve Hardeman

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