Food security and agriculture

Given that Australia’s high rates of forest loss and weakened land clearing laws are increasing bushfire risk, more than 300 scientists and practitioners have signed a declaration calling for governments to restore, or better strengthen, regulations to protect native vegetation. Better regulations will also help farmers by reducing environmental risks.

This paper examines farmers’ perceptions of climate change and climate-related risks affecting crop and livestock production, including climate-risk management and adaptation strategies, in Uganda. Percieved changes in climate included erratic rainfall

New research finds that climate change has doubled the odds of multiple regions simultaneously experiencing the hot and dry conditions that can shrink crop yields and destabilize food prices. Those same conditions can also exacerbate fire risk, drying out vegetation in the summer and autumn and fueling intense, fast-spreading wildfires.

This provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate provides an assessment of the state of the global climate during the period January-September of the year in question.  

For more than 20 years, these reports have been published in the six

New research finds that besides rising temperatures and sea levels, climate change is increasingly causing extreme rainfall, floods and cyclones to occur concurrently in India. These disasters will possibly have negative impacts on health, farming, and even job availability and social cohesion.

This edition of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management focuses on evidence of the science behind disaster mitigation. It also includes research reported at the Fire and Emergency Management Conference (AFAC18); the impacts of disasters on the

An extended dry season, wildfires and a lack of foreign currency suggest Zimbabwe's farmers face a tough growing season ahead and food shortages. As a surge in fires incinerated fertile land, farmers are worried they will not be able to afford commercial fertiliser and will have to resort to burning their fields to cultivate ash as an alternative.

This resource guide is aimed at providing USAID practitioners involved in the planning and development of sustainable infrastructure projects with a better understanding of green infrastructure (GI) and identifying GI interventions that can be integrated