Belize is increasingly prone to natural disasters caused by both natural and man-made hazards. These hazards are exacerbated by climate change. The Belizean economy's dependence on natural resource-based activities exacerbates its vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters.  Frequent hurricanes, flooding and sea-borne storm surges causes severe damage and losses of lives, livelihoods and infrastructure.  This Plan of Action was developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to strengthen disaster prevention, risk mitigation and preparedness within agriculture and fisheries sectors and enhance coordination for DRR with other development sectors of Belize.

This Strategic Framework aims to strengthen the role of the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry and Fisheries (MALFF) of Saint Lucia as a partner in disaster risk reduction and suggests priority actions and entry points for disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions in the agricultural sectors. It provides an overview of policies, regulations and implementation framework for disaster risk management (DRM) in Saint Lucia and an outline of the institutional set up for DRM and climate change adaptation in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. By providing a framing of the key elements for disaster risk reduction, it will support the formulation of a national adaptation plan

This logic framework brings forward categories of Sida's climate change interventions and proposes indicators and results matrix for each of them. It allows planners and decision-makers to ensure a solid monitoring franmework of the interventions. It will provide ideas for national adaptation planning and defining a monitoring and evaluation system.

The CBA Framework presents a range of enabling factors which must be in place at different levels in order for effective community-based adaptation to take place. It provides a set of proposed milestones and indicators to help project teams in planning activities and tracking progress towards achieving the enabling factors. these milestones and indicators are focused on monitoring and evaluating the adaptive capacity of target populations. Note that it is a working draft, which will evolve and improve with testing and feedback from users. It is useful when formulation a NAP and setting up the monitoring and evaluation framework.

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) is a conceptual framework to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation. This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance to develop a robust M&E framework that can be used as part of local and national planning systems, or to assess and compare specific interventions. It will be useful for local and national government officials, development partners and NGO staff seeking to develop adaptation plans and M&E in different contexts.

By combining local knowledge with scientific data, the Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) process builds people’s understanding about climate risks and adaptation strategies. It provides a framework for dialogue within communities, as well as between communities and other stakeholders (e.g. local and national government agencies). The results provide a solid foundation for the identification of practical strategies to facilitate community-based adaptation to climate change.

InVEST is a set of spatially explicit software models that can be used to quantify, map and value the benefits provided by terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in either biophysical or economic terms. The tools in the suite can be used to map and analyse the relative importance of different areas for ecosystem services.  The tool enables decision makers to assess quantified tradeoffs associated with alternative management choices and to identify areas where investment in natural capital can enhance human development and conservation. The tool allows estimating for example coastal vulnerability or development of fisheries. 

CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods) is a set of project-planning tools to help project managers and planners identify and prioritize climate risks at the community level. The tools help in identifying livelihood resources most important to climate adaptation and as a basis for designing adaptation strategies. CRiSTAL targets project planners and managers working at the local or community level. The set includes different tools for food security, forests and conservation areas.

This toolkit provides with tools to estimate the economic costs and benefits of climate change impacts, as well as adaptation options that are relevant for the agriculture sector. Targeting technical officers at the national and sub-national level, it provides information to begin adaptation planning from the economic perspective.

List of litterature on climate change impacts on the Canadian and North-American agriculture sectors. Provides background information for laying the ground before planning for adaptation.