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Men and women stand along the edge of a greenhouse plot, planting seedlings.

Our Work

Countries around the world are contending with a wide range of climate impacts, from more intense heat waves, droughts, storms, and floods, to slower-moving changes like sea level rise and ocean acidification.

USAID is partnering with the Government of Colombia to strengthen the capacity to increase sustainable land use and decrease deforestation in order to protect the Chiribiquete National Park, an iconic UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Together Against Conservation Crimes in the Amazon

Conservation crimes threaten the Amazon rainforest and the health, safety, and economic well-being of surrounding communities. To combat crimes such as wildlife trafficking and illegal logging and mining, USAID partners with regional, national, and local organizations through two activities: Together for Conservation and ECOS. Learn more in this video in English and Spanish.
Drought Resistant Maize for Food Security
Webinar Recording

USAID Climate Strategy Webinar Series: Climate-Smart Agriculture

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.
Webinar Recording

USAID Climate Strategy Launch Webinar Series

The Climate Strategy Launch Webinar Series raised awareness about key aspects of the new USAID Climate Strategy and began to answer the question for practitioners, “How does this strategy affect my day-to-day work?” This webinar series also aimed to gather questions from USAID Staff and Implementing Partner Staff about the Strategy.
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Dam and Reservoir Project to Provide Agricultural Water

Villagers near Tandjouare, Togo are working with representatives from the US State Department and Ministry of Environment to build a dam and reservoir that will be used to collect water so that the land can be irrigated throughout the year.
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Sustainable Farming Using Greywater

In Togo, climate change is causing shorter, more intense periods of heavy rainfall, and longer and hotter dry seasons. The city of Sokode is using greywater from its septic sludge treatment plant to grow vegetables, ensuring constant access to water for agriculture throughout the year.
Fish merchants on Zio River in Lome, Togo
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Fish Merchants on Zio River

In Lomé, Togo, women sell fish that local fishermen catch in the Zio River, located behind their merchant stand.
A partial view of the Hakaluki Haor wetland in Bangladesh.
Blog Post

Innovations in Aquaculture Production and Fisheries Management Build Climate Resilience

The Fish Innovation Lab is working to address climate-related shocks to aquaculture and fisheries through current research to estimate aquaculture production and value chain performance in Bangladesh and promote sustainable fisheries management in East African biodiversity hotspots and climate refugia.
  • Alaina Dismukes, Agrilinks
Technical Report

Advancing Resilience Measurement Consultation Report

The demand for resilience evidence has grown exponentially as conflict, COVID-19 and the accelerating impacts of climate change have reversed development gains on a massive scale and pushed hundreds of millions of people into crisis levels of poverty and hunger.
  • USAID, University of Arizona, Global Resilience Partnership
A man walks along a dirt path with windmills behind him
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Advancing Energy Security and Climate Resilience in Bangladesh

Bangladesh submitted its updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the UNFCCC in August 2021 and is committed to reduce GHG emissions in the power, industrial and transportation sectors.
  • Dr A. Mondal, M. Haider, R. Chowdhury