ACTING ON LOSS AND DAMAGE: LINKING RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND CLIMATE MOBILITY IN ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION PLANNING

By Lucy Szaboova, Ann-Christine Link, Kees van der Geest, Jacqueline Demeranville and Giorgia Prati

3/4/25

Kalacha, Kenya. Pastoralist women and a caravan of camels walking to the local well. 2009 © Giulio Napolitano/FAO

This paper explores how, with inclusive and transformative adaptation and mitigation planning and action, many of the losses and damages experienced in the climate change, rural livelihood and (im)mobility nexus can be reduced or avoided. It introduces a new guiding framework and toolkit developed for FAO by the authors.

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This paper was originally published by the Internal Displacement Research Programme here and is republished with the authors' permission.

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