The UN World Food Program announces that due to extreme weather conditions including drought, a late rainy season and flash floods that caused crop failures and raised food prices, over 11,000 less fortunate in Laos are in need of emergency food aid until the next harvest.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_648290.html


Using extensive census and climate change data, researcher Jason Samson of Canada’s McGill University creates a world map that shows human vulnerability to climate change, noting that countries contributing the least in terms of greenhouse gases are mong those forecast to be the most impacted.
http://x-journals.com/2011/mapping-human-vulnerability-to-climate-change/,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303120848.htm


To help Âu Lạc (Vietnam) cope with climate change, Spain donates almost US$700,000 to Thái Nguyên and Quảng Ninh provinces to assess impact and better manage natural resources.
http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/FAO-helps-Vietnam-with-forest-management/20113/16497.vnplus
http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Spain-helps-Vietnam-cope-with-climate-change/20113/124779.vov


The state government of Western Australia announces plans to allocate AUD$360,000 for a program to help save the indigenous and critically-endangered Western Ground Parrot, which totals only 140 birds in the wild.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/21/3169512.htm?site=news