This link provides an overview of vulnerabilty assessment: explanation of what it tackles; the different approaches; the reasons why to undertake a vulnerability assessment; the challenges; the available information. It provides an in-depth understanding of vulnreability assessment to interested users, enabling a solid preparation phase when planning adaptation.

This farmework provides decision-makers and adaptation implementers a structured approach and a sourcebook for assessing vulnerability to climate change. It contains a selection of methods and tools to assess the different components that contribute to a system’s vulnerability to climate change. It was prepared as part of the Indo-German development cooperation project 'Climate Change Adaptation in Rurals Areas of India' (CCA RAI). Provides valuable tools and methods when preparing a national adaptation plan.

The presentation outlines the components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. The presentation also explains the alternative concepts of vulnerability, and the role of natural and social sciences in determing this. The presenter further elaborates on different methods for assessing vulnerability separating them into top-down or bottom-up approaches, and presents a framework table for climate change related vulnerability assessments.

This article analyses farmers and species vulnerability to climate and socio-economic change according to different scenarios. It estimates their sensitivity and capacity to adapt to external factors as a means of identifying what causes the differences in their vulnerability.

This course provides the necessary knowledge to design, develop and implement agricultural projects and programmes that address the challenges of a changing climate. It is useful for professionals working in agricultural development who need to learn how to mainstream effectively climate change considerations in their projects and programmes.

This paper provides a review of conceptual frameworks for the assessment of climate change-related vulnerability and gives some examples of their application to the agricultural sector. It aims to help reduce complexity by easing understanding and communication; assist the comparison of different vulnerability approaches to identify differences and detect gaps; and serve as a guiding principle and useful reference for vulnerability assessment in the agricultural sector.

Platform gathering tools for estimating climate for agriculture, such as: a world-wide agroclimatic database, agroecological zoning, a local climate estimator software, a climatic databse, etc.

The Web Loc Clim is a tool which estimates climate for any location on land.

The global climate maps are based on data of mean monthly values of temperature, precipitation and cloudiness prepared in 1991 by R. Leemans and W. Cramer and published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The IIASA database includes three key climatic elements: average monthly rainfall total, average monthly temperature, and monthly average sunshine.

The objective of this study is to enhance our understanding the El Niño phenomenon using FAO’s Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS) and improve effective early warning capabilities of FAO and partners to issue and trigger timely disaster risk reduction measures. The study contributes to the objective of increasing the resilience of communities and their livelihoods. The study can help countries in integrating early warning systems and lessons learned form past southern oscillation phenomena into their national adaptation and disaster risk reduction plans, budgets and strategies.