Climate Response & Resilience
By 2030, climate change could force more than 100 million people into extreme poverty. Here’s how we’re working to build resilience.
By 2030, climate change could force more than 100 million people into extreme poverty. Here’s how we’re working to build resilience.
Many of the communities in which Concern works rely on agriculture for both food and income.
Faced with degraded land and extreme weather, farmers often contend with food insecurity and unreliable income. In the event of a climate disaster (including hurricane, cyclone, and drought), we address the first-response needs, while also looking for ways to both reduce the impacts of hazards on the lives and livelihoods of the people with whom we work.
We also promote eco-friendly farming techniques that are tailored to local environments and designed to improve food security and nutrition, help communities sustainably manage water and other natural resources.
Climate change is a threat multiplier for hungry and undernourished people, undermining sustainable development — including our goal of zero hunger by 2030. This piece is adapted from Rupa Mukerji’s essay, “Climate Change and Hunger,” published as part of the 2019 Global Hunger Index (coproduced by Concern and Welthungerhilfe).
For the subsistence farmers of southern Malawi, the causes of climate change are largely irrelevant. They are consumed with the business of coping. Almost everyone here relies on the land for survival, and traditionally almost everyone grows maize. But, as the weather has become more erratic over the years, that reliance has become a problem.
As the geopolitical discussion on how to tackle climate change continues, the herders of northern Kenya have little choice but to deal with its effects. Here’s how we’re using the three Gs (and a W) to help them.
Vast areas of northern Afghanistan are on the move — literally. As the glaciers of the Hindu Kush begin to disappear and the mountain snows melt faster and earlier, the people below are facing a major crisis.
In 2018, we …