Projects

Climate and weather events overlap in space and time to generate impacts that cascade from one sector of society to effect another.

A major challenge to building climate resilience societies is connecting climate service users to climate services in ways such that individuals across sectors and at varying levels of decision-making processes can access and use climate information.

Urban food systems (UFS) in southern Africa comprise a hybrid mix of food sourcing opportunities from formal and informal food retailers, including open-air markets, street vendors, small shops, and supermarkets, as well as household-level strategies, such as urban agriculture and food sharing.

Enhancing the Evidence for Humanitarian Action (EEHA) in the Face of Climate Change is a 2-year interdisciplinary project funded by the USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).

Many resilience-building programs organize and implement interventions following a logic of sequencing, layering, and integration (SLI), often with an emphasis placed on strategies that empower women.

When ancestral landscapes have become “wounded” by settler violence, how do communities tend these ecosystems to meet therapeutic needs, when the landscapes themselves suffer from trauma?

In the Indigenous Khasi communities of the South West Khasi Hills district in Northeastern India, we have been investigating the potential causes of reported health issues in rural villages. These villages are isolated and lack health facilities.

The purpose of NRAMP is to strengthen the human and institutional capacity of Nigerien public universities to design and deliver academic coursework leading to a Master’s Degree in Resilience and Agribusiness.

The US Caribbean is vulnerable to climate change and its impact on the cancer control continuum. The Caribbean Climate Change, Cancer and Health Disparities Research Center (CCCARIB-CARES) will increase capacity at Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands to develop, support, and sustain education, capacity building, research, and adaptation capacities to help mitigate the impact of climate change in cancer prevention and control and health disparities in underserved populations.

The Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) has been a leading mechanism to bring precipitation, temperature, drought and other forecasts to bear on climate risk planning in the Caribbean. The Forum includes a two-day training event on seasonal and subseasonal forecasting and a stakeholder workshop that deliberately brings together climate and meteorological service providers and decision-makers.