Understanding and tracking resilience is key to supporting households in dealing with disasters and climate extremes. Accurate and timely information can help development actors to know what kinds of resilience-building activities to support and who best to target. Yet, current ways [...]

Development programming in fragile and conflict-affected states can present daunting challenges, not the least when trying to generate learning for adaptive programming. Settings are fluid and actors are transient, while limited access to many parts of a country hampers the [...]

How can climate risk insurance be linked with other forms of social protection to help vulnerable communities absorb climate shocks? The Challenge Developing countries are disproportionately affected by climate change. With the increased frequency of climate shocks (such as floods and storms) and [...]

This document has been prepared within the framework of the Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) of the global food Security Cluster (gFSC) as part of its commitment to “Improve awareness-raising and ‘language building’ to increase common understanding of preparedness and resilience”.  With the [...]

In order to enhance the knowledge base on and support the uptake of good practices in climate change adaptation in the agricultural sectors, FAO will be organizing a series of webinar modules titled “Scaling-up of Adaptation in the Agricultural Sectors”. [...]

In the lead up to Paris, firm commitments were made by both State and non-state actors to work together to build climate resilience. These commitments were reflected in the Paris Agreement, which for the first time, set global ambitions to strengthen [...]

How many times have you heard yourself saying “we don’t need to reinvent the wheel”? How often have your been asked to take stock of what has been done? Do you want to know how to learn lessons from the [...]

Harina Devi Khatri and her husband Bishnu are vegetable farmers with three children who live in Hirapur Doti district in Nepal. Thanks to the BRACED Anukulan project they are now linked to markets and services through their local Rural Collection [...]

This document summarizes the online discussion Beyond “temporal” resilience: results that withstand the test of time, which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 1 to 24 March 2017. The discussion was facilitated [...]

As an activity of the gFSC Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) 2017 work plan, the group would like to call for your support for the best practice guide on preparedness and resilience-building activities in humanitarian food security interventions. As a way to consolidate, learn [...]