Food security and agriculture

Maplecroft CEO Alyson Warhurst advises, “Businesses should undertake impact assessment and monitoring of water stress and water security and other areas of risk that conflate with such pressures including food security, conflict and energy availability”...

'Magnitude of the impact of climate change on wheat production in India assessed through simulation studies indicated that an increase in 1 degree Celsius mean temperature, would not cause any significant loss to wheat production in India, if simple adaptation strategies such as change in planting date and varieties are used'...

Innovative examples of adaptation efforts to save lives and improve livelihoods, developed by organizations and entrepreneurs, are being recognized at the Annual Reception of GAIN’s 2012 Annual Meeting & Scientific Convening, an event attended by world leaders in the public and private sector...

'In a system where drama, urgency and clear need so often justify requests for funding, it is no surprise that the qualified predictions from early warning systems fail to have the same impact,' writes Save the Children's media manager for humanitarian emergencies...

'Indigenous groups were not consulted in the writing of the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change, despite their increasing vulnerability to erratic weather patterns,' Ang Kaji Sherpa, general secretary of the Kathmandu-based NGO, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities told an international conference...

SARDI Senior Scientist Melissa Rebbeck said the strength of the current climate research programs was a focus on finding practical adaptation options that could be directly applied to grazing enterprises on a local and regional level. These adaptations aimed to maintain or increase profitability while maintaining sustainability...

The European Environment Agency and the European Commission recently launched Climate-ADAPT, a web resource aimed at policy makers and 'practitioners' – engineers, planners and administrators – who can learn from the experience of others facing similar challenges already carrying out adaptation actions elsewhere...

As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial