Radhika Dave

TL;DR: Urgent technical, financial and institutional support is needed to improve the agricultural production and food security of Malagasy farmers and make their livelihoods resilient to climate change.

TL;DR: Madagascar's imperilled biota are now experiencing the effects of a new threat—climate change.

TL;DR: This document proposes a series of draft principles and guidelines that were produced at a workshop with participation of its authors in June 2011, with the aim to serve as a foundation for planning ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with 200 smallholder farmers following the impacts of cyclone Giovanna (a category 4 cyclone that struck in February 2012) to understand how farmers prepared for the cyclone, how cyclone impacted their livelihoods and what strategies farmers used to deal with these impacts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey 240 households and interview eight key informants to identify household and community responses in two communities with contrasting forest cover trajectories, finding that a heavy dependence on forests for food and raw materials and a majority of the respondents holding a positive view of hazard mitigation services provided by forest fragments.