Skip to main content
    Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions logo
Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions
  • Home
  • About ASSAR
    • Why focus on semi-arid regions?
    • Our approach
    • ASSAR's international and interdisciplinary team
      • ASSAR's people
  • Study areas
    • India
      • Karnataka
      • Maharashtra
      • Tamil Nadu
    • East Africa
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Namibia
    • West Africa
      • Ghana
      • Mali
  • Themes
    • Adaptation barriers and enablers
    • Global warming of 1.5°C
    • Dynamics of ecosystem services
    • Drought
    • Governance
    • Participatory processes
      • Transformative Scenario Planning
    • Effective adaptation
    • Wellbeing
    • Gender and social differentiation
    • Mobility
    • Knowledge systems
    • About collaborative work
  • Capacity building
    • Internal capacity
      • Postgraduate students
      • Training and workshops
      • Upskilling early-career researchers
    • External capacity
      • Building capacity among vulnerable groups
  • Outputs
    • Working Papers
    • ASSAR on Youtube
  • Archive
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About ASSAR
    • Why focus on semi-arid regions?
    • Our approach
    • ASSAR's international and interdisciplinary team
      • ASSAR's people
  • Study areas
    • India
      • Karnataka
      • Maharashtra
      • Tamil Nadu
    • East Africa
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Namibia
    • West Africa
      • Ghana
      • Mali
  • Themes
    • Adaptation barriers and enablers
    • Global warming of 1.5°C
    • Dynamics of ecosystem services
    • Drought
    • Governance
    • Participatory processes
      • Transformative Scenario Planning
    • Effective adaptation
    • Wellbeing
    • Gender and social differentiation
    • Mobility
    • Knowledge systems
    • About collaborative work
  • Capacity building
  • Outputs
  • Archive
  • Contact

Breadcrumb

  1. Home

Archive

320x192.png

Adaptation is about people

11 Sep 2019
320x192.png

Reflections on ASSAR’s multi-level learning: What we achieved and what we learnt in the process

26 Aug 2019

What will global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C above pre-industrial levels mean for semi-arid regions?

09 May 2019

Adaptation is about people: a new ASSAR video

09 May 2019
320x192.png

From individual to institutional to public – ASSAR’s capacity strengthening in India

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

The stories we encounter in the field are the story of all of our lives

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Enhancing the capacity of local stakeholders to promote agriculture and food security in semi-arid Ghana

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Peer-to-peer learning equips pastoralists to cope better with climate change

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Strengthening capacities across scales in Namibia

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Building interdisciplinary thinking through capacity building

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

From sceptic to ardent advocate

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

ASSAR’s contribution to WOTR as a practitioner organisation

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Growing as a researcher with ASSAR

11 Apr 2019
320x192.png

Is accepting an ASSAR PhD scholarship the best decision I have taken for my career?

11 Apr 2019

What ASSAR did for me as an early-career researcher

11 Apr 2019

Who are the most vulnerable? Challenging assumptions to go beyond the obvious

02 Apr 2019

Ghana climate research reaches deep into farming communities

14 Mar 2019

My experience of video-making for the Research-into-Use Small Opportunities Grant

14 Mar 2019

Theatre of the Oppressed: challenging top-down approaches to climate change

06 Mar 2019

"What do we know and what do we need to do?" Reflections from the BRACED learning event

26 Feb 2019

Strategic partnerships for research impact in Ethiopia and Kenya

14 Feb 2019

Massive Open Online Course to teach diverse audiences about Research-for-Impact now online!

31 Jan 2019

Synthesising familiarity and difference: Doing research in post-colonial landscapes

30 Jan 2019

Oxfam and ASSAR push for social justice at climate negotiations in Poland (COP24)

30 Jan 2019

Rural inhabitants ask for village-level ‘water use management’

30 Jan 2019

Barriers and enablers to effective climate adaptation through the eyes of pastoral communities in Kenya

30 Jan 2019
320x192.png

When adaptation barriers and enablers intersect: Key considerations for adaptation planning drawn from ASSAR’s findings

23 Nov 2018
320x192.png

Changing aspirations and the realities of climate change adaptation for young people in Ethiopia and Kenya

23 Nov 2018
320x192.png

From me to we: A story of how motivation changes people's perceptions and drives community action

23 Nov 2018

Taking VRA to the national level in Botswana

20 Nov 2018

Workshop promotes sound financial management to enhance women’s livelihoods in Ghana

09 Nov 2018

Capacity building through peer-to-peer learning: a way to adapt to local changes in Kenya

05 Nov 2018

Theatre of the Oppressed: a multilayered look at the adaptation space

02 Nov 2018

Climate radio show looks at the importance of drought management in Namibia

31 Oct 2018
Promoting climate justice and adaptation in semi-arid Ghana

Promoting climate justice and adaptation in semi-arid Ghana

25 Oct 2018

Livestock as wealth for rural Namibians

22 Oct 2018
ASSAR supports dry season agriculture in semi-arid Ghana with Climate Advisory Resource Centres

ASSAR supports dry season agriculture in semi-arid Ghana with Climate Advisory Resource Centres

16 Oct 2018
What latest assessment on global warming means for southern Africa

What the latest assessment on global warming means for southern Africa

10 Oct 2018
Using transformative scenario planning to think critically about the future of water security in Bangalore, Botswana

Using transformative scenario planning to think critically about the future of water security in Bangalore

08 Oct 2018
Adaptation Hub: using mobile apps to support agriculture and adaptation planning in semi-arid Ghana

Adaptation Hub: using mobile apps to support agriculture and adaptation planning in semi-arid Ghana

05 Oct 2018
Mazing through peri-urban Bangalore

Mazing through peri-urban Bangalore

02 Oct 2018
Capacity development around soil and water management in the district of Koutiala, Mali: from need to deed

Capacity development around soil and water management in the district of Koutiala, Mali: from need to deed

27 Sep 2018
Using transformative scenario planning as a way to think differently about the future of land use in Bobirwa, Botswana

Using transformative scenario planning to think differently about the future of land use in Bobirwa, Botswana

27 Sep 2018
Reflections on a week with the ASSAR West Africa team

Reflections on a week with the ASSAR West Africa team

27 Sep 2018
Reflections from an ASSAR-SOG exchange at the University of East Anglia, UK

Reflections on an ASSAR-SOG exchange at the University of East Anglia, UK

27 Sep 2018
Building capacities in India through unlearning, learning and sharing

Building capacities in India through unlearning, training and sharing

26 Sep 2018

As world warms, it's time to get serious about heat stress: lessons from India

25 Sep 2018
ASSAR Annual Meeting 2018

Junior researchers, experts, vulnerable people, policy makers: Strengthening the capacities of all those touched by ASSAR

18 Sep 2018
Aradhana Yaduvanshi

‘Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities’

18 Sep 2018
Vulnerability to heat stress: A case study of Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

Vulnerability to heat stress: A case study of Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

18 Sep 2018
Learning about ecosystem dynamics, and becoming friends in the process

Learning about ecosystem dynamics, and becoming friends in the process

17 Sep 2018

Gender, agriculture and climate change: Namibia radio show update

17 Sep 2018

ASSAR Spotlight on Capacity Building

14 Sep 2018
Looking back on the Transformative Scenario Planning process in Mali

Looking back on the Transformative Scenario Planning process in Mali

13 Sep 2018
Bhavana Rao

ASSAR Botswana's national VRA training workshop a resounding success

12 Sep 2018
Building the adaptive capacity of women in Mali’s Koutiala District

Building the adaptive capacity of women in Mali’s Koutiala District

07 Sep 2018
Vulnerability and responses to climate change in drylands: The case of Namibia

Vulnerability and responses to climate change in drylands: The case of Namibia

06 Sep 2018

Drought and climate change communication - hot topics on climate change radio show

29 Aug 2018

Mapping invasives in India’s Tamil Nadu with smartphones

23 Aug 2018

The development-adaptation spectrum in dryland East Africa: mapping risks, responses and critical questions for social research

22 Aug 2018

Global geography and geoinformatics conference highlights value of multidisciplinary approach

21 Aug 2018
Camels in Kenya

From cows to camels: How pastoralists are adapting to climate change in Kenya's drylands

16 Aug 2018
Identifying stakeholders and vulnerabilities in Botswana's Mahalapye sub-district

Identifying stakeholders and vulnerabilities in Botswana's Mahalapye sub-district

10 Aug 2018

Climate change radio show explores role of religion in adaptation

08 Aug 2018
Micro-irrigation in Maharashtra

Whose appropriate technology? Understanding the adoption of micro-irrigation in the face of climate and policy uncertainty

06 Aug 2018

ASSAR and Kati-FM launch climate change radio show in Namibia

03 Aug 2018
Rabiatu Abass in Franschhoek

A visit of 'firsts': Cape Town and Adaptation Futures

02 Aug 2018

Household-level research paints fuller picture of food security in rural India

30 Jul 2018

Young climate innovators share award-winning adaptation ideas at University of Ghana

25 Jul 2018
View of Cape Town from the air

Adaptation Futures 2018: an enthralling journey to the Mother City

25 Jul 2018
From climate science to climate action

From climate science to climate action

20 Jul 2018

Celebrating 5 new ASSAR journal articles

16 Jul 2018
A quick guide to ASSAR at Adaptation Futures 2018

Missed out on Adaptation Futures in Cape Town?

12 Jul 2018
Conducting life history interviews: a how-to guide

Conducting life history interviews: a how-to guide

21 Jun 2018
Namibia water governance

When participation is not enough. Lessons from decentralised water governance in Namibia

13 Jun 2018

ASSAR looks critically at adaptation discourses, policies and practices

08 Jun 2018

Adaptation in semi-arid areas of India

06 Jun 2018

Health vulnerability to heat stress in rural communities of the semi-arid regions of Maharashtra, India

04 Jun 2018

Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of water in rural Jalna, India

29 May 2018

ASSAR presents at the 10th Climate Change: Impact and Responses conference in Berkeley, California

25 May 2018

ASSAR presents at UNFCCC Thematic Expert Meeting on Adaptation in Bonn

21 May 2018

Can experiential learning really be fun?

02 May 2018

Background Paper on Botswana’s Draft Drought Management Strategy

23 Apr 2018

How strong are climate adaptation knowledge systems in semi-arid regions?

12 Apr 2018

Imagining the future of water for productive use in Namibia's Omusati Region

12 Apr 2018

Using TSP to think differently about the future of land use in Bobirwa, Botswana

12 Apr 2018

Pathways for adaptive change: Insight from scenario outcomes in Mali

11 Apr 2018

Deciding the future of agriculture in Upper West: the case of Transformative Scenario Planning in Ghana

11 Apr 2018

WOTR’s experience of organising and facilitating the TSP process in Jalna

11 Apr 2018

Attempting to transform the future – reflections from the TSP process in Bangalore

11 Apr 2018

Workshops can challenge stereotypes and change perceptions

11 Apr 2018

Adapting TSP for the ASSAR context

11 Apr 2018

What will global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C above pre-industrial levels mean for semi-arid regions?

11 Apr 2018

Deconstructing gender identities and power structures

06 Apr 2018

Climate variability and impact in ASSAR’s East African region

29 Mar 2018

Heat Stress – Vulnerability, health impacts, and coping strategies in rural communities in the semi-arid region of Maharashtra, India

29 Mar 2018

TSP Spotlight

29 Mar 2018

Namibia Climate Change Adaptation booklets

27 Mar 2018

Adaptation as innovation: Lessons from smallholder farmers in India's rainfed Karnataka

23 Mar 2018

Climate change adaptation through youth innovation

23 Mar 2018

Tweets by @ASSARadapt

Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions logo

The ASSAR project is complete, and this website is no longer being updated. However, the website will be available until 2024 to allow the research findings to remain easily accessible.

Copyright © - 2026 - University of Cape Town - All rights reserved. POPIA | PAIA.