Food security and agriculture

The preparation of this Local Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-2013 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.

The progress report

The 4th Africa Regional Platform concluded today with a detailed set of commitments and recommendations on the complex challenges Africa faces due to surging economic growth, rapid urbanization, climate change and a wide range of natural hazards.

'We’re going to end up in a situation where we have a multitude of things happening that are going to negatively impact crop production,' said Jerry Hatfield, a plant physiologist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and lead author of the study. 'In fact, we saw this in 2012 with the drought'...

'We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of warming predictions for the future, and the timescale is contracting,' warned Liz Hanna at the Australian National University’s Climate Change Adaptation Network...

This research examines the feasibility of creating a global early warning system for climate change, the CLIM-WARN system, which purpose is to provide timely and actionable warnings to institutions, businesses, governments and the general public about the

This report examines adaptation options in regional case studies and offers insights into regulatory, legal, socioeconomic and other barriers to climate change adaptation so that they can be addressed effectively at the local and state levels. This report

This publication reports on how climate change is going to trigger more frequent and fiercer storms, floods, landslides, forest fires, extreme temperatures and drought, and developing countries will bear the brunt of these blows. These countries are home

Citing the aftermath of recent drought, wildfire and hurricanes in the US, the Nature Conservancy highlights its work both in Doha and outside the UN process to help countries take climate action now by promoting green infrastructure as a core element of solutions to reduce climate and disaster risks and raises big questions over the pathway to ramp up toward the $100 billion, or even smaller funding flows, that are needed for climate finance in the next five years...