Climate and resilience blog posts

Taking a closer look at the advantages and challenges of solar-powered groundwater irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa.

The six year project demonstrated immediate results of contour bunding and benefitted more than 2,500 farmers across the two study sites.

For years, farmers in the coastal zone of Bangladesh have continually braced for a multitude of challenges. And the solution lies in working with farmers, communities and local institutions, combining low-tech water management innovations with better coordination and new crop varieties.

Using technology and freely available real-time data, scientists develop a map combining climate and nutrition information to identify vulnerable farmers and regions, to better target solutions.

The new framework assists insurers and implementers to reach disadvantaged groups, who are often overlooked in weather-based insurance schemes, to help those farmers recover and rebuild.

These steps will help preparing the region for disaster management to avoid collapse of medical, economic and food systems.

A holistic and integrated approach is essential to enable sustainable, efficient and affordable management of scarce groundwater resources.

State-of-the-art climate modeling is more accurately predicting climate change impacts in Western Nepal, and the results are more worrying than ever.

We need to better understand groundwater usage in the Central Dry Zone in Myanmar - where artesian aquifers are drying up due to increasing demand and climate change.

Rainforests grab the headlines, but with 87% of wetlands lost globally, it is time to nurture these immensely productive and diverse ecosystems.

A global study of farming systems highlights four key learnings in harnessing large-scale irrigation for sustainable economic growth and enhanced food security

Creating an enabling environment for small farmers is much more complicated than drawing simple conclusions about climate-related migration.