Food security and agriculture

This study aims to improve the understanding of the human health dimensions of climate change and how projects in areas other than health, such as agriculture, water financing programs, and disaster risk reduction need to account explicitly for the health

'We decided to take measures geared to dealing with climate swings, to mitigate the risks to agricultural production,' Óscar Mendoza told IPS. Another step in climate change adaptation was the implementation of an early warning system...

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in a recent interview, highlighted the prevention of disasters and making the world safer among his 'five generational priorities' for his second term which began on Sunday.

Bangladesh’s agricultural institutions have developed 190 varieties of wheat and rice capable of withstanding drought, salinity, pest attacks, flooding or temperature extremes. Bangladesh still needs better cooperation from international agriculture research agencies to help farmers adapt to climate change...

'We need funds to build more seawalls and work on water projects. The biggest threat to Kiribati is coastal erosion and water salination. We need to address these problems before 2020. The Green Climate Fund should be made available today'...

'Adaptive social protection provides a potential bridge to the humanitarian-development divide and also links disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation,' said Christophe Béné, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies...

SciDev.Net editors and columnists summarize the science and technology contributions to the fields of both disaster warning and disaster response in 2011...

The Kuwait News Agency reports that community-based disaster risk reduction activities will be implemented in Mauritania to allow people to be less dependent on rainwater for their food security...