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Strategic Urban Planning to Decrease Heat Risks

This infographic summarizes the benefits that urban planning can provide to reduce heat risk, and provides recommendations for green infrastructure and urban planning measures city officials can take to decrease heat risk.
  • USAID
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Resilient Energy Platform

The Resilient Energy Platform supports the development of resilient, sustainable, and secure power systems with expertly curated resources, training materials, data, tools, and direct technical assistance.
Blog Post

Olam Helps Ugandan Coffee Farmers Build Long-Term Climate Resilience

Looking to ensure that coffee farmers continue to invest in coffee in ways that enable them to grow production and quality in the face of climate change, Olam, a global agribusiness and one of the leading green coffee origin exporters, teamed up with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), investing to improve farmer resilience to climate change in the Mt. Elgon region in Uganda.
  • Agrilinks
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Climate Risks in Food for Peace Geographies: Zimbabwe

This profile provides an overview of climate risks to key sectors that impact food security in Zimbabwe: crop production; livestock; human health and nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); pesticide use; and invasive species.
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Blog Post

A Digital Game to Improve How Livestock Index Insurance Promotes Resilience to Drought

The game is simple. On a brown digital grassland with a single tree, tiny goats mill back and forth. When you decide how many of those goats to buy or sell and how many to insure, clouds float across the screen and one of two things happens: the clouds stop and rain falls, roughly doubling the goats and producing milk for sale, or the clouds move steadily across the screen and half your herd is wiped out.
  • MRR Innovation Lab, Alex Russell
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Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Environmental Projects

Research[1] demonstrates that when environmental conditions worsen, the treatment of women and girls worsens. Agriculture has significant impact on the environment that can increase environmental degradation. As communities in environmentally-precarious situations face stress, gender-based violence (GBV) is a negative coping strategy that perpetrators sometimes use to reassert control over women’s bodies and minds.
  • Meredith Perry