Climate Change Publications
Fiddling With Soil Carbon Markets While Africa Burns
Climate change poses enormous challenges to agriculture and smallholder farmers. Increasing average temperatures; extreme events that include heat waves, floods and drought; alterations in rainfall patterns – all will combine to make growing food a more risky endeavor for farmers in both developed and developing countries. These risks will fall hardest on the most vulnerable, namely smallholder farmers living in poor countries.
ActionAid's detailed briefing paper is in response to World Bank's initiative to promote soil carbon markets in the garb of Climate Smart Agriculture program, to be launched in Durban.
Equitable Adaptation Financing
ActionAid calls for more and better funding for adaptation. AAUSA is working to develop policy proposals regarding the types of projects to which climate adaptation funds should be directed, and the mechanisms and channels through which such funds should flow. Please see our recent report,
- Equitable Adaptation Finance
- "The Time is NOW: Lessons from farmers adapting to climate change" (PDF)
- “Compensating for Climate Change: Principles and Lessons for Equitable Adaptation Funding.” (PDF)
Other Publications From ActionAid International
- We Know What We Need! South Asian Women Speak Out about Climate Change (PDF)
- Climate Change, Urban Flooding and the Rights of the Urban Poor in Africa: Key Findings from Six African Cities (PDF)
- Climate Change and Smallholder Farmers in Malawi: Understanding Poor People’s Experiences in Climate Change Adaptation (PDF)
Other Publications from the Up in Smoke Coalition
ActionAid is a member of the Up in Smoke Coalition, a coalition of organizations that makes the links between climate change and global poverty.