The objective of this government project is to develop and pilot a range of coping mechanisms for reducing the vulnerability of farmers and pastoralists to future climate shocks.

The National University of Mongolia and other partner are developing local adaptation strategies of the coupled social-environmental system to climate change in the Mongolian rangelands. Spatially large landscape is critical in arid lands to offset climate variability.  A fragmentation of the cultural landscapes in the arid and semi-arid lands of Mongolia has increased vulnerability. Therefore, this project will try to reinstate traditional land use practices, while supplementing these with knowledge of adaptive land management.

With the lowest volume of annual renewable water resources and of water resources per capita, the Middle East and North Africa is the most water-scarce region in the world. Moreover, rapid population increase, economic growth, rising affluence, urbanization and expansion of irrigated lands are drastically increasing the demand for water, while climate change is negatively affecting the supply. Over the past decade, International Development Research Centre and several partners have supported numerous research projects and a network of researchers on water demand management (WDM).

Madagascar’s terrestrial biodiversity is legendary, and the waters surrounding this island nation boast some of the richest arrays of marine biodiversity in the Indian Ocean. Climate change threatens this wealth in myriad ways. On land changing climatic conditions reduce or eliminate habitat for numerous species and bring increasingly severe droughts and floods.

Villagers in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR, switch from farming to fishing when the Mekong River floods during August to October.

This Red Cross project consists of training communities in flood prevention and protection. Annual flooding in this region destroys livelihoods and increases the occurrence of vector-borne diseases.  Communities have learned to drain existing waterways and enlarge riverbeds to prevent flooding, and to dig trenches and dykes (which are strengthened by planting fast-growing trees) around their homes and land to protect themselves when floods occur. Link to Source

The impact of climate change and El Niño is increasingly causing coral reefs to bleach. WWF’s Friends of the Reef project is an effort to protect Asia Pacific’s coral reef ecosystems, which are the source of new coral recruits for reefs throughout the region and a source of livelihood for coastal people, especially in the fishery and tourism sectors. Friends of the Reef engages local stakeholders and decision makers in developing, testing, and implementing plans to increase coral reef resilience to major threats in the region, including climate change.

The overall goal of the project is to improve the livelihoods and adaptive capacities of the vulnerable rural communities to the adverse impacts of climate variability and change. The project is conceived of as a pilot project designed to test a two-pronged approach to adaption. The first prong is development and testing of technical adaptation solutions for possible integration into the public watershed and forestry management programs.  The second prong of this project’s test approach is development and implementation of financial instruments, i.e.

In the drought-prone regions of Maharashtra State, the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is helping poor communities reclaim degraded lands through the regeneration and sustainable management of watersheds. About 70 percent of Maharashtra’s land area is hot semi-arid to arid, supporting agriculture that is largely dependent upon monsoon rainfall. Precipitation is concentrated in just a few months of the year and is highly variable in frequency, intensity, and geographic coverage.