Food security and agriculture

This technical guide translates the findings and experience to date on weather index-based insurance (WII) into practical decision-making steps for donors and practitioners. It calls for insurance to form part of an integrated approach to risk management

'Building a better understanding of the risks presented by climate change and the types of actions that can help minimise these risks is essential to sound, evidence-based decision-making'...

This document asserts that there is an increasing evidence that climate change has an impact on natural disasters, such as flooding, and on agricultural production, both of which have implications for gender issues. It briefly reviews issues related to

This disaster management policy aims to alleviate the impact of disasters on communal or small scale farmers, emerging and commercial farmers through buffering the detrimental effects that the disasters have upon their production as vell in reducing the

At a climate change policy conference that Foodgrains Bank helped organize in Ottawa recently, speaker after speaker from the global south told us that adaptation is their main priority, reports the Canadian Foodgrains Bank in a plea for increased action and funding from the Canadian government...

The current study is a part of "Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods for Vulnerable Ecosystems" (RESOLVE) programme, which intends to explore the magnitude and impacts of different natural hazards namely flood, riverbank erosion, salinity

Leidi Urbina, enlace técnico del Consejo Agropecuario de Belize, dijo que ' el Cambio Climático ya es un fenómeno mundial y todos tenemos que ponernos de acuerdo para mitigar y adaptar nuestra agricultura al fenómenos'...

The purpose of this research report is to provide evidence of a new vision of an adapted aid approach to escape the hunger cycle, e.g. through Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). In the Sahel, food insecurity triggered by drought tends to be a slow onset and