Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Chakalipa Kanyenda, country coordinator for Find Your Feet, an NGO that promotes climate-resilient agriculture techniques, said that with the rainy season shortening due to climate change, farmers need to grow early-maturing maize varieties...

'Diversification is part of the picture, but it's also about creating smarter policies that reduce the impact of drought conditions,' said Te Horipo Karaitiana, chief executive of the Federation of Maori Authorities...

This policy brief summarizes lessons learned through Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform (AKP) about critical gaps in knowledge about climate change, adaptation and vulnerability, as well as how best to fill them.

It asserts that national-level

Investing in resilience - accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas:

A declaration in which the participants of the Regional platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas acknowledge the work being developed

'Without women fully taking part in decision making, leadership and implementation, real community resilience to climate change and disasters simply cannot be achieved,' said Founding Director of the Brazil Network for Human Development, Thais Corral...

Heads of State, government ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs, scientists and civil society representatives will meet in Geneva in May to discuss a new global framework to reduce disaster risk.

A new report acknowledges the Philippines as a global leader in enacting legislation on disaster risk reduction but finds this is undermined by poor urban governance resulting in ineffective building codes and poor land use planning at the local level.