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Theme: Agriculture Finance
What lessons can we learn from community-based adaptation approaches using Ag-techs to enhance smallholder farmers adaptive capacity?
Timestamps of the webinar on “What lessons can we learn from community-based adaptation approaches using Ag-techs to enhance smallholder farmers adaptive capacity?”. Click on the image below to experience the complete webinar.
May 25, 2023
Advancing climate-resilient agriculture in India: Key lessons and challenges
Timestamps of the webinar on 3rd February 2023 on “Advancing Climate Resilient Agriculture in India: Key Lessons and Challenges”
May 25, 2023
Climate change and river erosion—what can we learn from the past?
River erosion has affected Bangladesh’s low-lying lands for millennia. The rivers change course over the years and cause loss of land and assets for people who live near the riverbanks. Climate change has added additional complexities to these natural processes and made poor and vulnerable people much worse off. Together, these processes continue to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
May 24, 2023
Bangladesh and climate change—lessons from the frontline
Bangladesh remains highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with flooding affecting 20-70% of the country annually. Women and poor farmers are often the worst hit, despite having a minor role in causing climate change. Even though farmers and local communities know of changing weather patterns and take steps to mitigate the effects, they lack adequate financial resources, which limits how well they can adapt to these changes.
May 24, 2023
The impact of climate change on farmers in Bihar and how farmer producer organizations can help them adapt
In Bihar’s Buxar district, farmers struggle to cope with the changing climatic conditions and adapt to them. Significant annual variation in rainfall and temperature erodes farmers’ adaptive capacities. Farmer producers organizations (FPOs) could play a central role to promote and facilitate farmers’ adaptation to climate change—but they need improved incentives and support.
May 24, 2023
Seven factors that determine the resilience and adaptive ability of smallholder farmers in Bihar
Smallholder farmers in the flood-prone state of Bihar need capital and support from system-level actors to increase their climate resilience. This blog identifies seven critical factors that can enable the building of climate resilience and adaptive strategies of smallholder farmers.
May 24, 2023