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4 Ways Farmers Can Adapt to Climate Change and Generate Income

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • restoration
Farmers working on an integrated system in a farm in Paraiba Valley, Sao Paulo. The system combines crops (a native species similar to potato and corn) with palm trees. Photo by Bruno Calixto/WRI Brasil
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  • Climate Resilience
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Pour la durabilité de la production du cacao, les pays et les sociétés doivent s’engager

  • Climate
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
Producteur de cacao en Colombie.
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Strengthening Disaster Preparedness in the Caribbean

  • Climate Resilience
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Damage in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. The Caribbean needs international support to prepare for disasters ahead of time. Photo by All Hands and Hearts.
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So Far, Green Bonds Fail to Raise Much Money for Resilience. The Climate Resilience Principles Aim to Change That

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Resilience bonds can fund things like climate-smart agriculture.
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In Gorakhpur, India, Citizens Use Nature to Prevent Floods

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Waterlogged housing in Gorakhpur, India
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Climate Change Is Hurting Africa’s Water Sector, but Investing in Water Can Pay Off

  • Climate Resilience
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  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Water Security
  • natural infrastructure
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Improving water management in African countries can improve climate resilience. Here, Waretu Abera, Head of Ethiopia's Water Land Resource Centre, stands by a stream. Photo by Panos Pictures/Food and Land Use Coalition.
  • Climate Resilience
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  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
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Innovación y preparación: La respuesta de caficultores costarricenses a los desafíos del cambio climático y la competencia en los mercados

  • Climate Resilience
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  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • agriculture
Don Armando Navarro explica las medidas de adaptación que ha implementado en su finca, como la construcción de terrazas. Fotografía: Stefanie Tye
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4 Things to Know About the Global Adaptation Challenge

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Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique
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Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

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A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
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This Month in Climate Science: Primate Extinctions; Ice-free Greenland; A Dengue Explosion

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chimpanzees in Uganda
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As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • public participation
Kids carrying water in the Indian countryside. Photo by Mr. Fink/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
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Camel traders at a livestock market in Kenya
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture

Local Communities Aren’t Just Climate Victims. They’re Climate Adaptation Leaders

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
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  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Community farming in Democratic Republic of the Congo
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From Mangroves to Tin Roofs: Fiji Uses Built and Natural Infrastructure for Climate Adaptation

  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
  • health
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution
A house on stilts on the outskirts of Lautoka City, Fiji
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This Month in Climate Science: First Climate-Induced Mammal Extinction, Color-changing Oceans and Stranded Sea Turtles

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Bramble Cay melomys
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For Small Businesses in Africa, Climate Resilience Is an Economic Opportunity

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • restoration
  • Business
Herders with cattle in Tigray, Ethiopia. Mohammed Bakarr / GEF
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7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

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  • biking
  • circular economy
  • stories to watch
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California wildfire
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Bamboo: Malawi’s Unexpected Tool for Climate Change Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
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Bamboo nursery
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  • Climate
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Stronger Than the Storm: 3 Lessons for Building Climate Resilience in Poor Urban Communities

  • Climate
  • Cities
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  • climate change
  • extreme weather
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Landslide in Rio de Janeiro
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