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USAID’s Forest Conservation Agricultural Alliance (FCAA) is helping cattle and soy producers meet increased demand for their beef and crops while minimizing deforestation to Paraguay's vulnerable Chaco and Pantanal regions.

• 09/07/2018
• Christine Chumbler

A program in Uganda's Karamoja region is helping communities resolve conflict over grazing lands even as more intense drought increases pressure on these lands.

• 08/10/2018
• Christine Chumbler

The USAID-funded program Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT), is identifying countries most affected by climate vulnerability, fragility and gender inequality.

• 06/15/2018
• Climatelinks

To help bolster both community and ecological resilience, USAID’s Hariyo Ban (Green Forests) program was established in 2011 to work in two biodiverse landscapes in Nepal: Terai Arc and Chitwan-Annapuran.

• 03/05/2018
• Climatelinks

While public sector interest in climate information services (CIS) is concerned with resilience in the face of climate variability and change, the private sector is beginning to recognize that there is a growing market for climate services. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are helping to bridge gaps in public services around the globe. 

• 02/20/2018
• Fatema Rajabali, Robert O’Sullivan, Jeremy Usher

Hosted by the African Union, the inaugural African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) - Africa Hydromet Forum brought together more than 500 policy makers to discuss and identify priority areas for improving CIS and building regional climate resilience.

• 02/15/2018
• Climatelinks

This month Climatelinks focused on the connections and complexities between climate change and conflict, environmental peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and effective environmental management and governance in fragile, vulnerable, and conflict-affected communities and regions.

• 01/31/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

USAID’s Findings and Preliminary Lessons from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Peru looked at three countries facing challenges from climate change. In all three countries, climate change is disrupting communities’ long-held understandings of their environments.

• 01/30/2018
• Christine Chumbler

Motivated by more frequent droughts that have eroded their livelihoods and intensified food insecurity, competing groups of pastoralists in one area of Ethiopia are abandoning violence and working together to calm conflicts and adapt to changing conditions. 

• 01/26/2018
• Erin Martin

By working together to reduce fragility and vulnerability, could we not only better prepare for disaster, but also help prevent conflict? We have the policy tools to take an integrated approach to climate, conflict, and disaster—but we need the political will to use them.

• 01/25/2018
• Florian Krampe, Roberta Scassa

• 01/17/2018

Do you have online resources, tools, videos, blogs or events you would like to share with the Climatelinks community that explore these questions?

• 01/09/2018
• Isabela Barriga

Throughout August, Climatelinks highlighted challenges and solutions for water security in the face of climate change. Explore below the many resources, blogs, videos, knowledge portals and events related to this topic, shared with us by Climatelinks community members.

• 08/30/2017
• Katherine Cunningham, Joyce-Lynn Njinga

• 08/04/2017

The NDC Partnership recently launched the NDC Toolbox Navigator. The Toolbox Navigator is an online resource focused specifically on resources that support NDC implementation.

• 05/10/2017
• Greg Carlock, Derina Man