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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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Advancing Women’s Leadership in the Clean Energy Transition

The clean energy sector has seen rapid growth. Countries around the world have embraced these technologies to achieve low emission development goals, increase infrastructure resilience and energy access, and reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels.
  • Derina Man
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Community Spotlights: Games for Development

This month, Climatelinks focused on games for development. Games, usually seen as a leisure activity, are also useful learning tools. In general, games used in the context of international development are simplified versions of complex real-world experiences.
  • Stephan Hardeman, Isabela Barriga
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Gaming for Profit

Climate change worsens familiar challenges to water and sanitation services, including limited access and poor infrastructure. Innovative approaches, such as games to inform sanitation enterprise development, have the potential to catalyze local solutions for sanitation.
  • Jesse Shapiro, Liz Jordan
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Maximizing the Power of Climate Data by Building Trust

As the frequency and magnitude of climate-related hazards increases, these changes are affecting people’s livelihoods, particularly those of rural and vulnerable populations more than ever.
  • Jeff Ratcliffe, Marie-Claire Tuzeneu
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How Can Climate Action Be Inclusive?

A growing demand to address the threats of climate change and social inequality has led to the emergence of inclusive climate action.
  • Wendy Jaglom, Logan Pfeiffer
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Is Grid-Scale Battery Storage Key to Renewable Energy Integration?

The USAID-NREL Partnership developed a suite of resources within the Grid Integration Toolkit that provides information about the role that battery energy storage systems (BESS) play in integrating variable renewable energy, such as wind and solar, into large-scale power systems.
  • Isabel McCan
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Serving Governments’ Climate Data Needs

Farmers around the world increasingly rely on long-range weather forecasts when planning their crops. Traditional timing for planting is no longer as reliable as it used to be, and neither are the rains, thanks to shifts in climate patterns.
  • Christine Chumbler
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Private Sector Training Empowers Minigrid Proposals for Haiti

In March 2019, the Government of Haiti released an official request for proposals as part of a broader plan to support the development of minigrids. Minigrids generally involve small-scale electricity generation and can advance energy transitions in rural areas by enabling a power supply for communities lacking reliable electricity.
  • Alexis Powers, Sadie Cox
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A Farmer-led Approach to Shrinking the Climate Information Gap

In a crowded banquet hall in Niamey, a dozen people gather around a large piece of paper, chatting excitedly in Hausa and French. They are a diverse group - farmers from hours outside the capital, radio broadcasters, extension agents, meteorologists, government officials and a smattering of NGO workers.
  • Kristin Lambert, Amanda Lewis, Mary Allen
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New Drought Monitoring System Will Reduce Climate Risks for South Asian Farmers

To mitigate the food security and economic risks of South Asia’s frequent and intense droughts, scientists and policymakers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) recently joined forces to launch an innovative decision support and agricultural planning system.
  • Agrilinks Team