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This annex to the Climate Risk Screening and Management Tools is designed to provide you with more information on climate change implications for agriculture (including terrestrial agriculture, pastoralism, and fisheries).

• USAID

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is committed to both promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment and strengthening the energy sector in order to fuel economic growth and social development.

• 06/23/2020

In 2017, an estimated 153 billion hours of work were lost due to extreme heat.

• 02/21/2020

Rapid urbanization, population growth and economic development are projected to increase global waste by 70 percent over the next 30 years—from 2 billion metric tons to 3.40 billion metric tons annually.

• 02/20/2020

Unsafe water contributes to the deaths of nearly 842,000 people every year worldwide, nearly 43 percent of which are children under five years of age.

• 02/20/2020

Between 1980 and 2010, droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, cyclones, and extreme temperatures caused more than $1 billion in economic damage in Madagascar.

• 11/25/2019

This profile provides an overview of climate risks in Malawi, including how climate change will potentially impact three key sectors in the country: agriculture; health and nutrition; and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

• 04/01/2019

In May 2018, USAID hosted the “Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Suppliers Forum" to engage U.S. firms interested in beginning or expanding business in developing country markets.

• 02/20/2019

This brief provides an overview of climate risks in Rwanda, including how climate change will potentially impact four key sectors in the country: agriculture, water, human health, ecosystems and energy.

• 02/07/2019

Countries around the world are experiencing more intense heat waves, droughts, floods and storms, as well as slower-moving changes like ocean acidification and sea-level rise.

• 11/05/2016

This document contains lessons learned from a decade of conservation work carried out by USAID’s Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE). The program operates in nine countries spanning the Congo Basin and is aimed at improving natural resource management in order to reduce deforestation and conserve biodiversity. Field-based activities are being carried out in 12 landscapes covering over 80 million hectares.

• 01/01/2010
• David Yanggen, Kenneth Angu, Nicodeme Tchamou