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Empowering Central American Farmers Against Climate Shocks

Forecasting tools and simple, low-cost interventions can help farmers adapt to some of the worst impacts of climate change-driven extreme weather events in Central America.
  • Nik Steinberg, Zachary Johnson
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Still Standing

How USAID’s disaster-resilient construction in Pakistan is keeping children in school amidst devastating floods.
  • Ali Syverson

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A rusty solar PV panel approaches the end of its use.
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Unlocking the Opportunities of a Circular Economy for Clean Energy

As clean energy production accelerates, the annual need for critical metals could outpace reserves and result in potential supply chain disruptions, endangering the transition to a clean energy economy.
  • Amanda Valenta, Andrew Fang, Monica Raphita Simarmata
Remote communities, rapid population growth, and frequent environmental hazards create serious challenges for land managers in the Himalayas.
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Building Better Land Data in the Hindu Kush and Himalayas

USAID and NASA’s joint SERVIR program is working with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to develop a new tool to give the region better information for land management, and hopefully make those choices easier.
  • Meryl Kruskopf, Jake Ramthun
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How You Can Build Your Skills to Combat Climate Change

The scale of the climate crisis can feel overwhelming. Wondering how you can help in 2022? We pulled together our top tools and trainings for addressing climate change through development work.
  • Neeha Mian
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announcing a new $3m gender-sensitive agriculture insurance activity at the Our Climate Future is Female: Women and Girls Leading Climate Action session.
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SERVIR at COP26: Collaborating for Climate Action

Building on more than 120 years of combined experience of its two parent agencies – USAID and NASA – SERVIR joined the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to highlight work that betters both scientific understanding and human well-being.
  • SERVIR Global
Clean water is already hard to come by in the Korogocho slums of Nairobi, Kenya, but when heavy rainfall leads to flooding, it only exacerbates the situation. Clean water sources get contaminated, leaving residents vulnerable to many risks, including waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
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USAID’s Climate Roadmap

The task before us is not easy. Climate change is one of the most difficult challenges we have ever faced — one that touches every corner of the globe and every priority we have as an Agency, from ecosystems and biodiversity to food and water security. USAID is prepared to address this challenge given our breadth of technical expertise, decades of experience, and longstanding relationships with over 100 partner countries.
  • Gillian Caldwell
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Editor’s Pick: Regional Approaches to Climate Change

Climate change impacts different regions in different ways and, as such, requires tailored initiatives to meet local development needs. Every region will face challenges brought on by the climate crisis and will integrate programs and systems to adapt.
  • Sophie Schrader
Solar panels and wind turbines generating electricity.
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Renewable Energy Auctions Support Colombia’s Climate Targets

The Government of Colombia, with the help of the USAID, has deployed energy auctions as a policy tool to reach climate targets, procure renewable energy at competitive prices, and ensure a more resilient energy supply for the country. 
  • Thomas Black, Jairo Gutierrez
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Protecting the Amazon

Since 2018, USAID and the U.S. Forest Service have helped Peru’s forest authorities and universities develop a training program for foresters to become certified as regents. Ana María, in her role as college professor, was part of the inter-institutional committee that made this happen. 
  • USAID
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Industry-Level Market Reform in Southeast Asia

To break down the silos that prevent joint climate action, USAID partnered with a global corporate, Barry Callebaut, to convene key buyers – peers – in the coconut industry. The result was the industry’s first global Sustainable Coconut Charter, which aims to improve farmer livelihoods, lessen the carbon footprint of coconuts and boost supply to meet rising global demand.
  • Angela Hogg
Emissions from agriculture vary depending on the season, management and region. Using annual emission factors could cause over- or under-estimates of emissions.
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Why Update Emission Factors for Irrigated Rice in Vietnam?

Rice production accounts for a significant portion of many Asian countries’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and Vietnam is one of the world’s largest rice producers. To meet the targets set out in its nationally determined contribution (NDC) and to maintain transparency in national communications (NC), Vietnam assesses the spatial variation of emissions across its rice-producing regions.
  • Sadie Shelton
Gray2Green team members planting trees at the University of Nigeria.
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5 Blogs You May Have Missed in 2021

In 2021, Climatelinks featured a wide array of USAID’s climate-related work through its blogs. The Climatelinks blog acts as a resource for the global Climatelinks community and serves as a storehouse for information in the form of lessons learned, success stories, newsletter recaps, and report summaries. 
  • Steve Hardeman
After learning agricultural techniques to better cope with the effects of climate change, Aisha Hamisi Amir, 54, a farmer in Kiongoni village in Tanzania, shows off the pigeon pea and dried cassava from her farm.
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Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change

Through Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s initiative to end hunger, and with support from USAID and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Aisha and other farmers on Zanzibar’s Unguja Island are learning to better cope with the effects of climate change on agriculture.
  • Catherine Njuguna, USAID
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Less Risk, More Reward: Empowering Smallholder Coffee Farmers to Better Manage Risk

To help farmers better manage risk, Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation partnered with four organizations and private sector businesses — Farm Africa and Root Capital, Neumann Gruppe GmbH, and Oikocredit — to launch innovative risk management initiatives that enable smallholder coffee farmers to reap more rewards and face less risk as they cultivate this high-value crop.
  • Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation