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This brief introduces the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/ International Atomic Energy Agency (FAO/IAEA) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, which aims to optimize and strengthen the capacities of member countries in using nuclear and isotopic techniques to improve agricultural resilience and the adaptation to climate change. 

This guidance document presents the application of “Save and Grow” practices and technologies to production of the world’s key food security crops – maize, rice and wheat. With examples drawn from developing countries worldwide, the document shows how eco-friendly farming systems are helping smallholder producers to boost cereal yields, improve their incomes and livelihoods, conserve natural resources, reduce negative impacts on the environment, and build resilience to climate change. 

This guidance document presents a new paradigm of intensive crop production, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable.

This brief introduces pulses into farming systems, which can be a key to increasing resilience to climate change.

This guidance document presents the key messages of FAO on climate change and food security. The document includes a synthesis of the most recent support provided by FAO to countries to face the impacts of climate change. It also brings together the most relevant knowledge on climate change including tools and methodologies. 

This technical document presents the scientific background of the SHARP tool, which is the Self‑evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP) tool. This tool was developed over two years with the participation of over 150 academics, practitioners and civil society and also field tested in Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Uganda with farmers and pastoralists. 

This guidance document aims at identifying and documenting existing climate-smart agriculture practices in Ethiopia that enable stakeholders to understand the opportunities and constraints to adopting particular climate-smart agriculture technologies or practices.

This brief suggests that strengthening the resilience of smallholders’ livelihoods would help reduce human suffering and the financial costs associated with disasters. 

This guidance document provides some insight on the data and tools necessary when dealing with the analysis of the effects of  Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) on food security, focusing on a gender perspective. 

This brief provides practical operational information on climate-smart agricultural practices. Taking a gender-responsive approach to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) means that the particular needs, priorities, and realities of men and women are recognized and adequately addressed in the design and application of CSA so that both men and women can equally benefit.

This guidance document synthesizes lessons learned from the FAO Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture programme’s work with online communities of practice. The document aims to help others searching for effective ways to organize and facilitate online communities. 

This guidance document suggests that policy-makers need assistance in identifying risk management options in the agricultural sector that allow them to effectively respond to the climate risks they face, while maintaining and enhancing agricultural policy objectives. Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) approach was developed to provide this assistance and this brief highlights some of the key findings related to risk management from CSA case studies.

This guidance document shows that the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda galvanizes and commits the International community to act together to surmount them and trasform our world for today’s and future generations.

This brochure presents World Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all. World Food Day is also an important opportunity to send a strong message to the public: we can end hunger in this lifetime and become the Zero Hunger Generation, but everyone needs to work together to achieve this goal.

This guidance document presents that climate change impacts directly agroecosystems, with in turn has a potential impact on agricultural production, which drives economic and social impacts, which impact livelihoods. In other words, impacts translate from climate to the environment, to the productive sphere, to economic and social dimensions. The document also suggest ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind. Action is urgently needed now to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of food systems to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.

This brief provides an overview of the relationship between water scarcity and agriculture and states that agriculture is both a cause and a casualty of water scarcity. While demand for water for agriculture and other uses are increasing rapidly, climate change also affects fresh water resources negatively both in terms of quantity and quality. 

This guidance document aims at facilitating access to learning by providing a “guided tour” to materials that are already available, focusing mainly on those available from within the UN system. This Guide is part of a series developed through UN CC:Learn to facilitate access to existing state-of the-art materials relevant for climate change learning on particular topics. 

The interactive version is available here.

This activity report provides an update on activities advance the programs, spanning the period May – September 2016. The report also includes a brief summary of all child projects for which design activities have been completed or are in final stages of completion.

This activity report shows some of the insights gained from the now substantial portfolio of GEF-funded adaptation projects. The GEF has invested over $1.3 billion to help communities in the developing world adapt to climate change, notably through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). 

This brief gives an overview of the GEF’s supports on global environment domains that are closely aligned with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) on climate, oceans and marine resources, as well as terrestrial ecosystems, forests, biodiversity and land degradation.