http://www.climateprep.org adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:23:12 +0000 Freelance http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2935 Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions With COP17-CM7 underway in Durban, agriculture has a high place on the agenda.  The world’s population has just passed 7 billion people, and is due to reach 8 billion in 14 years’ time.  As if the challenge of population growth is not enough, agriculture is having to adapt to [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/10/19/climate-futures-forums-a-participatory-approach-to-adaptation-planning-in-the-united-states/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/10/19/climate-futures-forums-a-participatory-approach-to-adaptation-planning-in-the-united-states/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:31:24 +0000 Freelance http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2868 By: Stacy Vynne, the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) For the past four years, the organization that I work for, The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), has been running a series of Climate Futures Forums in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Forums are essentially based on the principles of Community Based Adaptation (CBA) [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/10/19/climate-futures-forums-a-participatory-approach-to-adaptation-planning-in-the-united-states/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/08/04/innovations-in-climate-change-vulnerability-assessments-working-with-smallholder-coffee-producers/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/08/04/innovations-in-climate-change-vulnerability-assessments-working-with-smallholder-coffee-producers/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:20:16 +0000 admin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2808 By Jessica Frank, Twin Twin works in partnership with over 50 farmer organisations world wide, facilitating market access and helping to build business and organisational capacity. We are currently developing our strategy to support smallholder producer organisations to effectively plan adaptation interventions with their members; an initial project with Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative Enterprises in Uganda [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/08/04/innovations-in-climate-change-vulnerability-assessments-working-with-smallholder-coffee-producers/feed/ 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 22:18:16 +0000 Eliot Levine http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2766 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/feed/ 3 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/02/moving-from-coastal-resources-management-to-adaptation-a-reflection-on-mainstreaming-climate-change-adaptation-into-local-development-plans/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/02/moving-from-coastal-resources-management-to-adaptation-a-reflection-on-mainstreaming-climate-change-adaptation-into-local-development-plans/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 17:33:16 +0000 admin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2663 By Regie Junio, Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Philippines       Three years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a non-government organization in implementing development projects funded by official development assistance. One of the main objectives of the project was to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) through a participatory coastal resources management approach (PCRM) in the [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/02/moving-from-coastal-resources-management-to-adaptation-a-reflection-on-mainstreaming-climate-change-adaptation-into-local-development-plans/feed/ 4 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/07/developing-differently-to-build-adaptive-capacity-of-women-in-bangladesh/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/07/developing-differently-to-build-adaptive-capacity-of-women-in-bangladesh/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:04:54 +0000 Carina Bachofen http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2481 By Carina Bachofen Last year marked the three-year anniversary of Cyclone Sidr, which ravaged the southern coast of Bangladesh and claimed the lives of 3,500 people. Loss of life was exacerbated by loss of development potential as the fierce storm decimated the mud and thatch homes of countless families, destroyed key infrastructure, and damaged productive land, [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/07/developing-differently-to-build-adaptive-capacity-of-women-in-bangladesh/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/02/ecosystem-based-adaptation-what-does-it-really-mean/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/02/ecosystem-based-adaptation-what-does-it-really-mean/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:02:31 +0000 Shaun Martin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2464 By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Ecosystem-based Adaptation. If you understand what adaptation is, then the term “ecosystem-based adaptation,” or EbA, should be self-explanatory. But it’s not. There is perhaps no concept more confusing or misunderstood than this one. So what does Ecosystem-based Adaptation really mean and why are we so confused about it? To understand the [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/03/02/ecosystem-based-adaptation-what-does-it-really-mean/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:24:08 +0000 Carina Bachofen http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2323 By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron The Maldives is a country with many pseudonyms and identities. The great Venetian explorer Marco Polo referred to the Maldives as the “flower of the Indies”; to the scores of holidaymakers and honeymooners the island nation is popularly known as the “pearls of the Indian Ocean”. In recent years, as the [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/08/learning-from-the-past-while-promoting-inclusive-decision-making-for-the-future-the-case-of-bolivia/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/08/learning-from-the-past-while-promoting-inclusive-decision-making-for-the-future-the-case-of-bolivia/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:57:43 +0000 Carina Bachofen http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2230 By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Speaking at the UN Climate Conference in Bali in December 2007, Al Gore quoted the Spanish poet Antonio Machado telling the assembled delegates, “Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk.” The foundations for the path to climate change adaptation are built upon lessons learned from [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/08/learning-from-the-past-while-promoting-inclusive-decision-making-for-the-future-the-case-of-bolivia/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/08/22/educating-the-coast%e2%80%99s-youngest-about-climate-change-adaptation/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/08/22/educating-the-coast%e2%80%99s-youngest-about-climate-change-adaptation/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:23:38 +0000 Freelance http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2022   In this third and final installment of a three part series on WWF’s Latin American and Caribbean Program’s coastal adaptation projects in Costa Rica, Valerie Guthrie discusses the community’s efforts to educate and actively involve Junquillal’s youngest inhabitants in WWF’s  adaptation work. Communities matter. This is the foundation for our work helping sea turtles and the [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/08/22/educating-the-coast%e2%80%99s-youngest-about-climate-change-adaptation/feed/ 0