Fragility and conflict

This document outlines FAO's priorities for its current and future work on climate change. It focuses on adaptation and mitigation strategies in the agricultural sectors and advocates for better management of synergies and trade-offs among both. It also

This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger. It summarizes knowledge from global studies completed and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.

Its authors assert that in the context

This report addresses the protection and resiliency of the critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) of the United States. It describes the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, outlines

Speaking at the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition said it wanted to make the case for promoting and protecting nutrition as part of adapting to climate change by 'collaborative action' and 'building bridges' across various sectors to 'develop synergies and alliances to ensure that political will, financial resources and human efforts are optimized'...

This paper on climate change, food security and agricultural responses aims at delivering solutions to increase vulnerable farmers' resilience and to enable them to help combat climate change.

It considers vulnerable farmers and pastoralists – including

New horizons in environmental economics series:

This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of climate change on agriculture. The book also quantifies how farmers adapt to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing

New horizons in environmental economics series:

This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales.

The

Speaking at a capacity building workshop, an NDMO official said that the participants would be developing their ability to anticipate, estimate, plan and respond to disasters and to mainstream DRR into their district development plans and cited other disaster risks in Botswana include human epidemics...