Food security and agriculture

In order to understand the connections between climate change and staple crop production, World Food Programme and the Met Office Hadley Centre are cooperating to improve analysis that can aid decision makers in responding to the risks ahead, reports Alertnet...

Community-based adaptation in Morocco has proven to engage inhabitants of remote and vulnerable villages to take steps toward sustaining and improving their livelihoods while enhancing resilience to climate change. The inclusion of women and community-based organizations has been essential in both of these projects and their sustainability...

Aligning with the priorities outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, this plan responds to the need to develop a longer-term strategic approach that helps articulate funding

Women are likely to bear the heaviest brunt of the impacts of climate change due to their dependence on agriculture for their livelihoods, gender roles that increase their responsibilities for providing water, fuel and good sanitation for their families, and their limited access to information on climate change...

A desktop review of the effectiveness of drought contingency plans and planning in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia:

This paper is a UNISDR contribution towards effective Drought Contingency Planning (DCP) for stakeholders and partners implementing drought

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security South Asia has established a regional learning platform called 'Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform for South Asia' to provide a forum for multi-sectoral climate smart learning to scientists, policy planners, civil society, and farmers in South Asia...

'There is an increasing amount of data and scientific analysis available on projected changes in climate, observed and expected impacts on agriculture, and best practices for adaptation,' said Pramod Aggarwal, CCAFS regional program leader for South Asia...

'Non of the country in our region have a long term policy on integrated water resource management. In most cases there aren’t any disaster risk reduction and prevention strategy and action plan,' said the Executive Director of Regional Environmental Center of the Caucasus...