Arid Niger a 'model for Africa' as desert blooms Grappling with desert conditions, insurgency and decades of political instability, Niger has long struggled to feed its rapidly growing population. But experts say efforts to change that are bearing fruit - and may even be a model for the region. Thin Lei Win reports.

WEBINAR: Raising risk awareness through extreme event attribution This webinar discusses the Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) initiative, which uses the latest science to assess whether climate change has contributed to extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and heatwaves.

REPORT: Climate information and services in BRACED countries This report explores the various challenges end-users face in applying climate information.

REPORT: Reality of Resilience - Learning from climate extremes This report looks at how Reality of Resilience works, why it is timely, and provides seven steps to replicate the initiative in other resilience programmes.

Factsheet: Unscrambling climate and weather information This factsheet, from Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters, provides tips for integrating climate and weather information into development projects.

Reality of resilience: Perspectives of the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia This report highlights lessons from the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia, including how and why different communities were impacted