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Natural Resource Management

Community-driven natural resource management builds resilience by restoring degraded agricultural land and mitigating effects of climate and weather shocks. 

Natural resources are an essential part of reducing threats from drought, erosion, flooding, and tsunamis and storm surges. But they are threatened by increasing population, climate variability, and poor management. And natural resource environments are complex. New approaches are needed to address environments in the context of a broader systems approach.

Approach

Evaluations show how to mitigate the effects of climate change and strengthen resilience. One approach is through devolved responsibility for managing natural resources. Another is an agro-ecological approach that integrates natural resource management (NMR) with agriculture. This is called farmer-managed natural resource management (FMNR).

These practices improve soil health and productivity, reduce malnutrition, and strengthen capacities to cope with drought. They also reduce women’s burden for gathering wood and mitigate the impact of climate change through carbon sequestration. Integrating natural resource management and local governance has especially strong impacts on women’s empowerment.

Evidence

In Niger and Senegal, FMNR (and other community empowerment approaches to NRM) positively impacted land use and poverty reduction. In Niger, FMNR restored 5 million hectares of landscape threatened by severe desertification into productive agroforestry land. In Senegal, NRM partnerships between citizen working groups and local governments reduced poverty across 800,000 households.

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The Potential for Nature-Based Solutions Initiatives to Incorporate and Scale Climate Adaptation

26 May 2023 - World Resources Institute

Explore the barriers nature-based solutions initiatives face in offering enhanced adaptation support and consider their potential to better incorporate climate adaptation.

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Strengthening Urban Resilience with Climate Adaptation

14 Jun 2023, GMT -4 - ResilienceLinks , USAID

Explore how cities are on the front line of climate change and what investments are needed to ensure urban resilience.

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International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

22 May 2023, GMT +7 - Global Resilience Partnership

CBA17 brings together a wide range of stakeholders working at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.

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Assessing Communities' Coping Strategies During the Current Drought in Somalia

27 Apr 2023 - Somalia Resilience Population-Level Measurement Activity , Mercy Corps , USAID

The Somalia Resilience Population-Level Measurement Activity explores how households in Somalia are responding to the challenges of drought.

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