The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released several 2-page briefs and full-length papers on farmer adaptation strategies to climate change in Ethiopia and South Africa, and their implications for policies at the national, regional, and local levels. The nine briefs concisely lay out results and policy implications based on farmer vulnerability, water management, and the best ways to integrate climate change adaptation into overall development policy. The new papers go i more...

India's Bundelkhand region - 13 contagious districts of states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh - has been witnessing consecutive drought. This research document analyses the drought's impacts on drinking water and food security. It also charts out a drinking water security plan for the region.

'For most people in the West, climate change threatens their lifestyles. For the people of Bangladesh, climate change threatens their very lives.

'In Bangladesh the future has arrived; we have environmental refugees, because our country is unusually vulnerable to climate change. Some 70 per cent of the country consists of flood plains, and most is less than 6m above sea level. If there is a 1 per cent increase in average global temperatures, we will lose about 10 per cent of our land. That is more...

The article discusses the various ill effects that Climate change is inducing on Bangladesh. It shed light on the rapid salinity of water which is causing the trees in Sundarbans—one of the most dense forest and largest home to Royal Bengal tigers in the world— to die. The extract further highlights the latest trends in weather changes which is non-typical to Bangladesh. The author further discusses the problem flooding occurring due to rapid increase in the level of rainfall. Finally, the more...

'This document is an output from the OECD Development and Climate Change project, an activity being jointly overseen by the Working Party on Global and Structural Policies (WPGSP) of the Environment Directorate, and the Network on Environment and Development Co-operation of the Development Co-operation Directorate. The overall objective of the project is to provide guidance on how to mainstream responses to climate change within economic development planning and assistance policies, with natural more...

Bangladesh has already achieved one of the key Millennium Development Goals (MDG) - gender parity in primary and secondary schooling. The country is on track to achieve most of the MDG goals, even the difficult ones like infant and maternal mortality by 2015. However, disasters induced by climate change pose a serious threat to the development vision of Bangladesh. Frequent flood, tornados, landslides, spread of water salinity, drop in land productivity, bone-shivering cold spells, drought are s more...

Danish Trade Council and the National Agency of Environmental Protection have found that in order to promote exports and aid schemes an overview of the strengths of the Danish companies and their expertise within the field of environment and energy is required. Therefore, it has been decided that it would be expedient to prepare a catalogue to present this expertise.

'Jordan is a chronically water-scarce country, and less than five per cent of the land is arable. For farmers, little or no rainfall means severely reduced cultivation and production – and increased hunger and poverty. Those who find other ways to supplement their incomes generally earn very little. To address these challenges, an IFAD-supported project provided farmers with technical and financial assistance to promote soil and water conservation and boost agricultural production. It also hel more...

'This publication draws attention to the importance of ensuring that water and sanitation systems remain fully operational in the aftermath of natural disasters.'
(PAHO/WHO, Unicef, ISDR, IFRC, 2006; 50 pages)

'The WHO Guide to sanitation in natural disasters (Assar, 1971) summarized the essential aspects of environmental health management in disasters. These included the provision of emergency water and sanitation services; the burial or cremation of the dead; vector and pest control; food hygiene; and the assessment of the danger of epidemics following emergencies and disasters, etc. Thirty years later these aspects remain essential, though the needs, challenges and opportunities are greater.

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