Climatelinks Photo Gallery

A women's farmers group helps one of their own build a living fence along the perimeter of her property in Senegal. The group of 25 women support one another by lending a hand in the field and through their village savings and loan club.

The Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are vulnerable to typhoons, floods, droughts and tsunamis. The Enhanced Preparedness for Effective Response (EPER) program, funded by USAID, supports FSM and RMI’s resilience through capacity development and local ownership in disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management.

As part of this program, IOM designed tabletop exercises to test and improve the capacity of stakeholders to prepare for and respond to disasters. In this photo, two members of the Disaster Coordination Office participate in a tabletop exercise hosted by Chuuk State in Weno between the 16th and 18th of July 2019. The photo was taken by IOM’s Lee Arkhie Perez on the first day of the activity.

San Agustín Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2019.

Project: Alliance for sustainable landscapes and markets

In the alliance for sustainable landscapes and markets, supported by USAID and implemented by Rainforest Alliance in Mexico, we are working with coffee producers in Oaxaca and Chiapas to reforest and restore their landscapes.

The State Coordinator of Coffee Producers in Oaxaca (CEPCO) is one of our partners in the alliance. With them, we seek to generate resilient practices that overcome extreme weather and shocks by introducing new coffee species and planting multi species gardens, in order to create a more competitive product for the global market.

With climate smart agriculture implementation, coffee producers are able to strengthen their practices and restore their landscapes by planting more trees to give shadow and nurture their crops and protecting all the biodiversity that the forest inhabit like this beautiful cheeky kinkajou (Potos flavus) in Oaxaca.

Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, made landfall on the island of Dominica on September 18, 2017, causing widespread devastation.

Kayapó Fire Warriors Fire Preparedness Training BRAZIL - JULY 2009. Twenty-seven indigenous young people from four ethnic groups received training in fire preparedness techniques and fire safety measures in the Capota-Jarina Kayapo Indigenous Reserve in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

A mudslide devastates the Regent Community in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Typhoon Haiyan Damage Visible From Secretary Kerry's Airplane Lingering damage from Typhoon Haiyan is visible from the aircraft carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as he arrives in Tacloban City, Philippines, to announce $25 million in fresh U.S. recovery aid on December 18, 2013.

As part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, Practical Action is supporting and educating community brigades who can support the key topic of flood resilience and helping communities become more resilient before, during and after flooding. Here, two community brigade members are at a safe evacuation route sign in the Rimac valley near Lima, Peru.

The Chisapani location in the Terai of Western Nepal is a key spot as the Karnali river exits from the higher mountains to the lowlands, creating significant flood hazards that kill people almost every Monsoon. As part of an enhanced end-to-end early warning sytem, the Chisapani flood gauge reader monitors the river for alert levels and dispatches warnings to downstream vulnerable communities as part of Practical Action's efforts to build community flood resilience in Nepal.

The Chisapani location in the Western Terai of Nepal is a key spot as the Karnali river exits from the higher mountains to the lowlands, creating significant flood hazards that kill people almost every Monsoon. As part of an enhanced end-to-end early warning sytems, the Chisapani flood gauge reader monitors the river for alert levels and dispatches warnings to downstream vulnerable communities as part of Practical Action's efforts to build community flood resilience in Nepal.

The "devil fish project" was part of a series of interventions to support flood vulnerable communities in Tabasco along the Usumacinta River. As an invasive species, it is both increasing flood risk as well as opportunity as it can be fished, prepared, and eaten or brought to the market to increase alternative livelihood income and to improve the natural state of the river. One of the community members is showing one of the fish to a local program supporter.

Aerial tree seeding proof of concept for forest restoration on scale in Mau Narok forest.

Loading the tree seeds into the Air Tractor.

Planting millions of trees as fast as possible and as in a most cost effective way is critical to protecting East Africa against climate change shocks.

KEFRI, County Council of Narok, KFS and Seedballs Kenya. Aircraft, fuel and pilots time kindly donated by Farmland Aviation

To assist the Kenya Water Tower Climate Change Resilience Program.