Food security and agriculture

A four-year pilot project involving 15 West African countries has trained 5 700 subsistence farmers – including 1 000 rural women - in how to access and use weather and climate information to maximize yields and minimize risks...

'There is increasing recognition that these two areas share common ground; both are concerned with reducing vulnerability of communities and contributing to sustainable development'...

The annual monsoon season in South East Asia continues to wreak havoc on lives and economies across many parts of the region with Thailand reportedly suffering from the worst floods in 50 years.

'Reducing the risks of climate change and increasing the resilience of agriculture and forestry ecosystems are vital to Pacific Islanders (...) Both DRR and CCA policies and strategies recognise the vulnerability of the agriculture and forestry sectors in the Pacific'...

'Protection of children before, during and after disasters should be prioritised because they are physically weak,' declared Gen Marcel Gatsinzi, the Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugee Settlement...

On the occasion of the UN International Day for Disaster Reduction, Shannon Walajtys writes about the many animal species under threat of disasters, that range from catastrophic events, affecting thousands of animals, to a crisis that may impact upon just a few or even one animal...

Elizabeth Ranade-Janis takes the opportunity to commemorate the International Day for Disaster Reduction by talking about four disasters that you’ve probably not heard too much about but which impact vulnerable children and families, and deserve more attention...

This book presents the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions, including extreme weather events. The first two