Climate change adaptation: Enabling people living in poverty to adapt

Climate change is fast pushing communities, particularly the poorest and most marginalised, beyond their capacity to respond. Across the world, subsistence crops are approaching the limits of their viability as temperatures change; erratic rainfall patterns and changing seasons are upsetting agricultural cycles and leaving many struggling to feed their families; and rising sea levels are causing the inundation of crops and the contamination of water supplies with salt water