COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTATION

TIMOR-LESTE: Be ready for change and embrace it - Challenges and opportunities of responding to climate change

GHANA: Ahead of the pack - How CARE is leading the way on community-based adaptation to climate change in Ghana

WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS INITIATIVE

NIGER: Why women farmers are the key to climate change resilience in southern Niger

Stories - July - November 2012 (scroll to country name to read)

GHANA: Rainfall Shifts and Rain Gauges: helping farmers adapt to droughts and floods

KENYA: Building resilience to climate change and enhancing food security in north eastern Kenya

MOZAMBIQUE: Ranger - 'I want my children to know how beautiful our world is'

NIGER: Everybody depends on the earth to survive

VIETNAM: Ethnic minorities in Vietnam’s northern mountains act on their dreams for a more sustainable future

ALP for Africa - Adaptation Learning Programme 

- Ghana - Community Story - Rainfall Shifts and Rain Gauges: helping farmers adapt to droughts and floods

- Ghana - Community Story - Women take lead in tackling climate change
- Ghana: Community Story - Empowered women lead on community-based adaptation to climate change

- Ghana : Community Story - Savings and enterprise for adaptation to climate change

-Kenya: Community Story - Building resilience to climate change and enhancing food security in north eastern Kenya (Watch related participatory video featuring Noor Jelle from this story)

- Kenya: Community Story - Community institutions weakening in the wake of climate change
- Kenya: Community Story - In the Margins of Society: A snapshot of the climate change impact on the Munyo Yaya community

- Niger: Community Story (FR) - Semences améliorées: Espoir d’une production précoce en zone semi aride

- Mozambique: Community Story - Livelihoods diversification in a changing environment

                                                                                                                                                                    
BANGLADESH

- SHIFT PROJECT: Kadiza Begum works with CARE to lift herself out of poverty - English

- PRODUCE PROJECT: Pumpkin production helps people remain in local area despite flooding; erosion - English
-Duck Rearing in the face of Climatic Vulnerability: Chameli Begum's Story of Livelihood Adaptation - English

ECUADOR

-Shared knowledge reaps bountiful harvest for Ecuadorian family - English / Spanish 

ETHIOPIA

-More powerful together: Bridging hunger gaps in Ethiopia - English

 

GHANA

- Building resilience through innovation in Ghana -  English

KENYA 

- Kenyan women speak out on perils of drought through participatory photo storytelling- English

MOZAMBIQUE

- Ranger: 'I want my children to know how beautiful our world is' - English

- Primeiras e Segundas: Making Two Worlds One - English 

NIGER

- Everybody depends on the earth to survive - English

PAKISTAN

-FLOOD 2010: Belgis' story: Eight months and maybe some more day - English 

(Note: CARE knows that no single event, however extreme, can be attributed to global warming. However, floods like the one in Pakistan, are exactly the kind of events that scientists project to become more frequent as the earth's temperature continues to rise. The last year's confluence of events suggests just how brutal future climate change might be.)

TANZANIA

- Engaging communities in forest protection - English

VIETNAM

- Ethnic minorities in Vietnam’s northern mountains act on their dreams for a more sustainable future - English

-Vietnam communities unite to replant and manage mangrove forests to build resilience to powerful typhoons - English

-Hai works in the mangrove nursery - English

• -Oysters for a better living - English

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  ZANZIBAR

  - In Zanzibar, women are planning and planting a better future for themselves and their communities - English