Climate change

Climate change projects and programmes

FAO plays an important role in assisting Member Countries with climate change issues related to climate change and food security. FAO's programme on climate change considers the major objective of ensuring food security, which includes:

• the promotion of practices for the mitigation and adaptation of agricultural systems,
• the reduction of emissions from the agricultural sector,
• the development of practices aimed at reducing vulnerability and increasing the resilience of agricultural systems to climate related risks,
• stregthening national and regional climate observing systems and networks,
• climate and/or disaster risk management in agriculture and allied sectors, and
• data and information collection, early warning and dissemination.

FAO’s projects are targeted towards providing better solution for climate related risks in member countries. The field programmes are supported by the Organization's core budget and extra-budgetary resources received from multilateral and bilateral donors.

Overview

• Disaster risk management projects
• Bioenergy projects
• Other projects: All FAO projects in the country can be accessed from the Field Programme Management Information System (FPMIS). The content is coordinated by the Technical Cooperation Department of FAO.

Examples of field projects/programmes

• FAO within the UN-REDD Programme
• CSDI: The Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative
• Bangladesh: Improving adaptive capacity to climate variability and change (LACC)
• China: Pastoral risk management in Qinghai Province, China
• Haiti: Assistance to improve local agricultural emergency preparedness in Caribbean countries highly prone to hurricane related disasters
• India: Gender and climate change
• Nepal: Strengthening capacities for disaster prevention and Preparedness and Climate Risk Management in the Agricultural Sector
• Morocco: Assessment of climate change impact on crop yields in each agro-ecological zone