adaptation strategies
Globally, 1.7 billion farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The many who are already hungry are particularly vulnerable. World hunger currently stands at 1.02 billion people, its highest level ever. Yet scaling up localised ‘resilience’ successes offers hope for these farmers, while helping to address the climate problem. New thinking to recognise...
This study was commissioned to review the impact of climate change on Pakistan's rural disaster-prone communities in Badin (Sindh), Rajanpur (Punjab), and Khuzdar (Balochistan).
The study's aim was to review community perceptions of the impact of global warming and recommend coping mechanisms for affected communities. The findings will support different organisations and institutions...
This report argues that our chances of triumphing over global warming will rise dramatically if we change the context within which we 'fight its fire'. More than that, it suggests that we are already surrounded by a sleeping architecture of better ways to organise our economies, communities and livelihoods. We have, in fact, much more choice about our collective economic future than we...
The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather conditions are hitting poor communities, eroding their resilience. The country's glaciers are melting, bringing the danger, in the future, of greater water shortages and potential disputes in the wider region. Last...
Climate variability in Ethiopia is not new - but now, in addition to the usual struggles, Ethiopians living in poverty are additionally suffering the effects of climate change - both more variable climate and more extreme weather events.
People who are already poor and marginalized are struggling with the added burden of climate variability. For now, this means that the little that...
The coastal district was home to one of the world's earliest settled civilisations and also became one of the largest tomato producing regions in Asia. Now this area is waterlogged and can barely sustain agriculture.
Extreme weather events have persistently affected coastal areas of Badin, often provoking humanitarian disaster. Now the prospect of global warming in delta regions brings...
The flooding that devastated the Amazonian department of Beni in 2008 was the worst in at least fifty years, affecting 118,000 people and around three quarters of the total surface area of Beni. In the previous two years there had also been widespread damage from flooding. One local resident of the capital, Trinidad, summed it up when they said, "2006 was a bad year; 2007 was really bad; but...
Oxfam supports communities and organisations around the world that are already developing the tools and techniques that can be used to adapt to global warming. This case study is one in a series that highlights some of this work to assist programme practitioners in sharing and learning on climate change adaptation.
In 2007, after the Yasathorn Province in Northeastern Thailand...
Oxfam supports communities and organisations around the world that are already developing the tools and techniques that can be used to adapt to global warming. This case study is one in a series that highlights some of this work to assist programme practitioners in sharing and learning on climate change adaptation.
In 2007, after the Yasathorn Province in Northeastern Thailand...
Climate change is fast pushing communities, particularly the poorest and most marginalized, beyond their capacity to respond. Across the world, subsistence crops are approaching the limits of their viability as temperatures change; erratic rainfall patterns and changing seasons are upsetting agricultural cycles and leaving many struggling to feed their families; and rising sea levels are...
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