Water

Farmers in Niger and Zambia are examples of how sustainable livelihoods management systems can help communities build resilience to climate shocks. Two climate resilience projects have helped farmers in both countries transition from drought to resilience with success in improved water and land management.

New research shows that the best interventions for ensuring water productivity in agriculture – whether the source is rainwater or irrigation – are integrated approaches that look at both water and soil management. These approaches can increase yields by at least 27% on average across all intervention technologies.

The Procuring Resilience Opportunities (PRO) Toolkit focuses on ways cities and utilities can immediately work within their current procurement systems to enable better resilience outcomes.

Local procurement processes have the potential to either enable

The publication seeks to compile, analyse and disseminate experiences, and thereby to demonstrate and illustrate important steps and lessons learned as well as good practices to take into account when developing a climate change adaptation strategy for

In India, a new generation of Kashmiri farmers are adapting to extreme weather events, such as more frequent droughts, by creating water harvesting infrastructure to irrigate their land. The youth farmers say the water supply problem is not only due to depleting water sources, but is also caused by inadequate water infrastructure, management and governance.

Zambia has successfully mainstreamed climate resilience through its Seventh National Development Plan to support the most vulnerable sectors. With the government’s systematic incorporation of resilience in local, district and provincial planning, there are now climate-proofed canals and infrastructure, solar-powered boreholes and diversified farming systems.

A WMO-led project to establish a functioning hydrometeorological service in Afghanistan to improve early warnings and provide accessible and accurate weather forecasts has surpassed expectations. Thanks to the project, Afghanistan now has an automated observation network, quality data, and reliable weather forecasts, among other resilience builders.

New research shows that forests whose trees have a high diversity of water-use traits suffer less of an impact from drought. These results may lead to new research directions on forest resilience and inform forest managers working to rebuild forests after logging or disasters.