Resources

Curated List of Climate-Smart Agriculture Resources and Content.

• 07/28/2022

This webinar considered ways in which approaches to food security can be "climate proofed" and can contribute to USAID’s new Climate Strategy, highlighting important co-benefits that can advance other parts of the Climate Strategy in order to build resilient, prosperous, and equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions while addressing growing food insecurity around the world.

• 07/28/2022

This reference sheet is part of a series of materials aimed at USAID Missions and other Operating Units interested in integrating LRG into their programming. Each reference sheet in this series briefly outlines existing evidence on the links between LRG and an adjacent development topic—in this case, climate change—and provides practical guidance for integrating LRG considerations across the Program Cycle.

• 07/01/2022

This toolkit describes how users can use the Decision Support Tool to assess technologies based on agricultural and environmental outcomes and inform their scale up.

• 05/26/2022
• USAID

The Sustainable Agriculture Decision Support Tool assesses the financial and climate impacts of alternative agricultural technologies accounting for climate forecasts, to maximize agricultural and environmental outcomes. This report presents its application for two agricultural technologies in Senegal: (1) improved dual-purpose millet and cowpea, which have higher crop and fodder yields, on their own; and (2) improved dual-purpose millet and cowpea in conjunction with farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), which involves nurturing tree growth around croplands.

• 05/26/2022
• Tulika Narayan, Faraz Usmani, Aliou Faye, Edith Felix, Haixin Chen, Sarah Leser

The Amalima Loko program is a five-year USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) designed to improve food and nutrition security in Zimbabwe through increased food access and sustainable watershed management.

• 03/28/2022
• USAID

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), through its Flagship on Low-Emissions Development—otherwise known as Flagship 3 (FP3)— seeks to address the increasing challenge that global warming is placing on agricultural practices, policies and measures and the overall challenge of declining food security.

• 03/14/2022
• Tonya Schuetz, Allison Poulos

This assessment is provided as a concise resource that can serve as an evidence base to guide investment and management decisions by all actors in the livestock additive supply chain.

• 01/26/2022
• Roger S. Hegarty, Rodrigo A.C. Passetti, Kyle M. Dittmer, Yuxi Wang, Sadie Shelton, Jeremy Emmet-Booth, Eva Wollenberg, Tim McAllister, Sinead Leahy, Karen Beauchemin, Noel Gurwick

This working paper summarizes current knowledge concerning the relationship between investment in agriculture and the conversion of forest lands. It describes approaches to agricultural production commonly proposed to reduce the likelihood that agricultural investment will result in the conversion of forest land.

• 12/30/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

USAID’s development assistance in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) region extends to 11 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The high vulnerability to, and potential for, climate impacts throughout the region often drive direct integration of climate risk management into the country and regional planning processes.

• 10/13/2021
• USAID

Ecuador presents many opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agriculture, land use, and forestry sectors. The country has committed to reducing its emissions from land use change by 1.7 million metric tons (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually, unconditional on any donor investment, and by an additional 6.7 MtCO2e provided sufficient additional investment. An assessment of 16 potential land-based mitigation opportunities found that the total cost-effective potential in Ecuador was in fact about 33.6 MtCO2e annually. That estimate only includes activities that would not have negative impacts on biodiversity or on food and fiber supply. 

• 08/31/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

This brief introduces CIS, and describes how CIS can be used by resilience food security activities (RFSAs) and partners. The brief lists resources for CIS, and shows where more information can be found. It also introduces national, regional and global CIS providers and partners.

• 08/20/2021
• PRO-WASH, SCALE

LAC countries are increasingly feeling the urgency to take measures to adapt to, and not just mitigate, climate change.

• 06/22/2021
• Climatelinks

Global sustainability initiatives have a land problem. Agriculture has long been a primary driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss.

• 06/01/2021

What Is It and What Does It Mean for Resilience Food Security Activities?

• 04/15/2021
• PRO-WASH