Read the latest news about the Flanders International Climate Action Programme below.
How can agriculture be made possible in a region where water is scarce? In Nuweiba, on the coast of the Sinai Desert, farmers, experts and policymakers are investigating how solar energy and desalination can contribute to a reliable water supply for irrigation.
Climate change poses a growing threat to the livelihoods of aquaculture farmers in South-East Asia. This was also experienced by a shrimp farm in the Thai province of Chanthaburi, where successive disease outbreaks caused heavy losses.
Through the FICAP project ‘Platform for managing risks from extreme rainfall’, VITO and HydroScan are helping the local community to better prepare for such flooding.
The partners in the FICAP project ‘Climate-Resilient Bean Cultivation and Storage’ mapped the existing bean diversity in Burundi and investigated methods to better preserve various bean varieties.
On 10 March 2026, the second edition of the networking event organised by the Flemish International Climate Action Programme (FICAP) took place. More than 70 participants came together to share experiences and
Rice feeds billions of people worldwide, but conventional cultivation contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, water stress and soil degradation.
More than 600 young farmers in eastern Congo are now taking steps to apply climate-resistant techniques and are seeing their harvests improve.
The project 'Institutionalizing Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Approaches for Cocoa and Vanilla Cooperatives in Uganda' supports 750 small-scale cocoa and vanilla farmers in the Bundibugyo region of Uganda.
With concrete steps and tangible results in terms of both climate mitigation and adaptation, Flanders can look back with pride on this first series of international climate actions under this programme.