Violent storms, extended droughts, crop pests, animal diseases – these are just a few of the multiple types of hazards that are increasingly undermining the livelihoods of the world’s 2.5 billion agriculture-reliant people – and causing billions of dollars in [...]

This review explores how climate resilience programmes and projects can be designed, established and managed to be resilient themselves in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. It combines evidence-based learning from over four years of implementation from 15 projects across 13 countries, [...]

  The report examines the newly emerging market for off-grid solar-powered productive use appliances (PULSE). The majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s smallholder farmers live without grid electricity and produce globally low yields. PULSE appliances - such as irrigation pumps, cooling and refrigeration, and agro-processing - can [...]

The intensity and frequency of natural hazards and conflicts is increasing, and they are leaving in their wake an unprecedented level of humanitarian needs. Natural hazards alone occur nearly five times as often today as 40 years ago. The number [...]

When: Thursday 29 October 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT Moderator: Lynn Michalopoulos, Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, USAID Bureau for Food Security Speakers: Jill Scantlan, Regional Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Advisor, South and East Asia, Mercy Corps Tim Frankenberger, President, TANGO International Click here to register Join [...]