Food security and agriculture

Thanks to the relatively recent development of ‘event attribution’ in climate science, researchers can now confidently attribute the increase in extreme weather events to human-forced climate change. Seven University of Melbourne experts about preparedness in Australia.

A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly coloured cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia's northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled blazes, as persistent drought makes wildfires a hot issue in Latin America.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo announced a landmark moratorium, which bans all activities that damage the hydrological functions of peatlands - the world's largest terrestrial soil carbon stock. The move is expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions and prevent disastrous peat fires that have plagued the south-east Asian nation in recent years.

The Asian Development Bank and the Government of Mongolia today signed a $3 million grant to pilot community-based approaches to disaster risk management to increase herders’ resilience to dzuds, fires, and other disasters. The project responds to the government’s need to shift towards a holistic approach emphasizing disaster risk reduction and community engagement.

This paper addresses the information and evidence on the seasonal vulnerability and risk calendar in Nepal at a national and sub-national level, including: floods, landslides, fires, droughts and diseases. Findings of this rapid review indicates that:

This broad-based plan focuses on cutting the carbon pollution that causes climate change and affects public health.

It has three key pillars:

• Cut carbon pollution in America: the plan (i) directs EPA to work closely with stakeholders to establish

These non-binding, voluntary guidelines set out a framework of priority principles that will aid in the formulation of policy, legal, regulatory and other enabling conditions and strategic actions for more holistic approaches to fire management, which

This policy seeks to establish the guiding principles and architecture for disaster risk management (DRM) in Rwanda by presenting the institutional structures, roles, responsibilities, authorities and key processes, with the ultimate goal being to