Food security and agriculture

'The world is warming because of human activities and this is resulting in far-reaching and potentially irreversible impacts on our Earth, atmosphere and oceans,' said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud...

A glance at urban interventions by Red Cross Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean:

This publication was developed in an effort to complement and inform the internal process of defining urban intervention strategies in the Americas in order to

In advance of critical rainfall forecasts for the Horn of Africa, the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today announced a partnership with the WMO-supported African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) to ensure rapid dissemination of weather updates to disaster managers.

This abstract book of the Second World Landslide Forum reviews 29 sessions addressing: landslides and land-use systems, food security, wild fires, extreme weather, GIS applications developments, socio-economic impact, transportation network and lifelines

Según el reportaje, esto deja en evidencia la prevención de incendios forestales en Asturias sigue fracasando de forma estrepitosa por culpa de la dejadez e incompetencia del Principado. La Coordinadora Ecoloxista d’Asturies propone medidas alternativas, incluyendo la comunidad...

A north Queensland RSPCA inspector says Australia is behind the United States when it comes to disaster management planning for large animals, mainly horses and cattle, in flood, fire and cyclone events...

A new satellite data centre in Namibia will help farmers prepare for droughts, floods, bushfires and pests, reports SciDevNet. 'We can predict where problems are popping up' said said Marina Coetzee, a researcher at EOSA-RTC and a senior lecturer at the polytechnic...

This article summarises diagrams which are used to discuss the key elements of disaster risk management (DRM). These include the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC), and the Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram. The DRMC outlines the key initiatives carried out both in the Emergency Response and the Recovery Stages of a disaster; the effective DRR diagram suggests that there are five complementary factors which constitute DRR, one of these being DRM initiatives. The paper also includes a DRM planning diagram, which illustrates how government DRM plans, particularly at lowest levels, are complemented by NGO community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) initiatives.