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Vitalis story highlights the power of sustainable agriculture to foster community development in tough environments.
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Smart Farming in the Arid Region of Wajir County

Vitalis' journey from Vihiga County to Wajir County in northeastern Kenya is a great example of resilience and innovation amid climate change. Facing water scarcity, he drilled a borehole for irrigation, turning arid land into a productive farm.
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COP27: Jumpstart Smallholder Climate Adaptation by Addressing Risk

Few are more vulnerable to climate change than people who earn their living through small-scale agriculture. This blog presents three key ideas that can jumpstart climate adaptation and resilience by addressing risk in rural communities most impacted by climate change.
  • MRR Innovation Lab
A woman in hi-viz and a hard hat stands on a flat plain with wind turbines in the background.
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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
Women pick tea leaves on a hillside.
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Top 5 Adaptation Community Meetings from ATLAS

Advancing the field of climate change adaptation requires insight from diverse perspectives, active learning, and creative partnerships. Since 2014, USAID’s Adaptation Community Meetings (ACMs) have served as a platform to share knowledge for climate adaptation and resilience and promote integrated programming.
  • Isabela Barriga
In Kawa Village, Maluku Province, Indonesia, the women of the Lestari Group are rewriting the story of resilience in the face of climate change. In June 2024, they embarked on a transformative journey to increase their income and diversify their livelihoods.
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Turning Tuna into Triumph

Meet the women of Kawa Village, Indonesia, who are turning the tides of climate change with a culinary twist. Discover how their innovative tuna floss is empowering them, revitalizing their community, and proving that resilience is the secret ingredient to a brighter future.
Harvesting French beans at one the solar-powered irrigation sites set by Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze Activity in one of Rwanda's drought-prone districts of Bugesera.
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Postcard from the Field: Growing More Through Solar-Powered Energy

The five-year Feed the Future Hinga Weze project closed in 2022 after supporting the sustainable intensification of Rwandan smallholder farming systems for 733,000 farmers. The project worked to increase the resilience of Rwanda’s agricultural and food systems to a changing climate.
  • Climatelinks
Maria Elena Paredes, an Ashéninka leader from Ucayali, Peru, discusses maps at a workshop with scientist Yunuen Reygadas (in background) and other community members.
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Linking Science with Lived Experience to Conserve the Amazon

Under the USAID and NASA–funded SERVIR-Amazonia activity, scientists are working to understand how deforestation, forest degradation, and road construction affect biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, as well as to develop data and tools to support residents in achieving sustainability in the region.
  • Wendy Putnam
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Clean Water Enables Moving Forward

For the households that have lost so much to severe flooding, receiving life-saving assistance is more than just an aid. It means having the resilience to go on in their everyday lives and finding the courage to move forward and recover.
A woman holds a child in a corn field
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A New Plan for Global Climate Action through Policy and Research Capacity Building

CACCI is a worldwide coalition of research institutions dedicated to helping countries use better research methodologies, data analysis and policy building to create climate resilience through implementation of NDCs and NAPs, based on the best available research.
  • Policy, Research, Capacity and Influence Innovation Lab
Workers in a forest gather grass.
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New USAID Ecosystem-based Adaptation Evidence Summary and Case Study Series

Finding ways to adapt to the effects of climate change is no longer optional for most communities - it is necessary. The question is, what are the range of strategies for adaptation? Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a nature-based and people-centered approach that emphasizes ecosystem integrity as crucial for human resilience to climate change.
  • Anila Jacob, Jennifer Kane, Christine Chumbler
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Adaptation Community Meetings

The Adaptation Community Meetings are an informal opportunity for development practitioners, academic researchers, government officials, private sector representatives, and other international development professionals working to build climate resilience to exchange experiences and research. Meetings take place each month in Washington, D.C. and are open to the public and accessible to remote participants.