Adaptation

Aerial view of terraced rice paddies, Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Indonesia

Investing in agricultural water management: Pathways to a sustainable future

Other publication / International financing institutions must learn from past mistakes in agricultural water investment and direct their money to key promising approaches.

1 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Ecosystems, Finance, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Women doing housework following successful cataract surgery, Burkina Faso

Women’s vulnerability to climate-related risks to household water security in Centre-East, Burkina Faso

Journal article / The findings show a need to consider how the development of 'climate resilient' water and sanitation services account for social drivers of vulnerability.

20 July 2020 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals, Water resources and Wellbeing

SEI at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Past event / Take part in SEI's sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting 2021 from 13–17 December 2021, including a lecture led by SEI's Jeanne Fernandez and Bart Wickel.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster risk and Planning and modelling

Coffee tree with unripe yellow buds on plantation at sunset with mountains and fog in distance

The global challenge of adapting coffee to a changing climate

Feature / Climate change is taking a toll on coffee production not just in Brazil, but globally. Ensuring a steady supply will require more help for individual farmers.

15 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Finance, Food and agriculture and Mitigation

Passengers disembarking train onto green grass and mud with green hills and green trees in distances, Hsipaw, Myanmar, March 2018

Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change

Journal article / This article explores how different social-ecological narratives implicate gender equality.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation and Behaviour and choice

COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Exploring Loss and Damage event at COP26

COP26: what it delivered and what’s next

Feature / The COP26 outcomes have sunk in and it is time to take stock of what happened on fossil fuels, loss and damage and other questions and look ahead.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

Lightning through clouds under purple-blue sky with orange sky in distance with more lightning over Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa

Combining service design and discrete choice experiments for intervention design: An application to weather index insurance

Journal article / Learn how a new combination of methods can make development action more effective. This article describes the case of weather insurance in Uganda.

8 September 2021 / About Adaptation and Climate services

Europe’s cross-border trade, human security and financial connections: A climate risk perspective

Journal article / A large-scale literature and data review to explore the potential climate impact transmission pathways between the EU and other world regions.

23 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply chains

Water level of June Lake loop at Grant Lake in California appears particularly low due to drought conditions and low snowpack

Exploring the Water-Energy Nexus in California via an Integrative Modeling Approach

Journal article / This article discusses how different climate scenarios affect the water-energy nexus in California, employing the WEAP modelling tool.

29 September 2021 / About Adaptation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus