Food security and agriculture

Livestock could be critical to survival of African agriculture as hotter weather and rainfall patterns shift, says new study. Adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the Global Platform...

This report on African geopolitical risk was released for the World Economic Forum on Africa (Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 June 2008). It identifies and explores trends, potential impacts and mitigation relevant to four key risks facing Africa. These

Five-Year Review of the Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcomes in Africa (WSSD+5):

This report aims at monitoring and assessing sustainable development in Africa, and promoting a balanced integration of the three pillars

This study examines the opportunities for linking social protection, adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the context of agriculture and rural growth, exploring whether linking these three approaches together will help enhance resilience to shocks

This document presents the workplan for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) for the 2009-2011 period.

The chapter dedicated to the disasters presents the following programmes: Use of Satellites for Risk Management, Systematic

This report presents the summary of the Forum 2008, an international conference which focused exclusively on the human impact of climate change and on boosting assistance to worst affected poor and vulnerable populations. It deals with the climate

'Many agricultural drought indices are country- and sometimes even crop-specific, and are used as an early warning for decision-makers (governments and farmers),' said Robert Stefanski, WMO scientific officer...

Seventy per cent of the world’s extreme poverty is found in agricultural areas where farmers depend on rain for their harvests - and where too much or too little rain spells disaster. ActionAid’s field work confirms that climate-induced declines in crop