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Global climate variability and change is a serious threat to the environment, natural resources, and production systems. They are also challenges to social and economic development. Recently, donor agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations have started to pay more attention to the risks and uncertainties associated with climate variability and change and to develop plans and guidelines to integrate this issue into their development planning processes. Most of the work on adaptation is focusing on how to reduce the impact of climate change per se, rather than addressing the factors that cause vulnerability to the phenomena. Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change into the national development agenda is necessary to cope with the climate change impacts, because climate change is a development issue that has economic and social dimensions and impact. ICARDA’s approach to climate change adaptation is to build on technologies and research/development methods that have proved successful in the dry areas. The objective is to strengthen the adaptive capacity of communities and the resilience of farming systems, thus addressing both mitigation and adaptation. The present paper presents examples from the CWANA region where mainstreaming to climate change into the development efforts has been considered from the initiation, development and implementation of projects addressing climate change.
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Haddad, N., Shideed, K. (2013). Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change into the Development Agenda. In: Sivakumar, M., Lal, R., Selvaraju, R., Hamdan, I. (eds) Climate Change and Food Security in West Asia and North Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6751-5_17
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