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Highlights: This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate- change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic inclusion for agriculture- dependent...

South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...

Bangladesh's Haor regions are famous for their natural resources and are unable to escape climate vulnerability. Triggered by climate vulnerabilities farmers are heading towards...

Bangladesh’s aquaculture and fisheries sector are highly vulnerable to climate change, variabilities and extremes. It is imperative to identify climate risks, sensitive operations and management decisions...

CONTEXT Soil salinity is the main environmental limiting factor for current agricultural farming systems in the Bangladesh coastal zone. Targeting crop selection to ameliorate its impact...

The government of Rwanda is promoting agricultural intensification focused on the production of a small number of targeted commodities as a central strategy to pursue the joint policy goals of economic growth, food...

In this publication, we elaborate on the specific ways that CSA can contribute to various SDG targets, and explain how nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement are...

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is WFP’s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource...

LoCAL (The LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility) has shown that performance-based grants for climate resilience can build local government capacities to handle climate...

Poverty in Southwest Bangladesh is higher than in the rest of the country. At the onset of the project, 26.7% of people in the Barisal division were considered extremely poor and 14.7% of the population was undernourished...