Preparedness

In order to control the breeding process of desert locusts, the countries hosting recession areas carry out surveys. This document summarizes the findings of the process carried out between the 8th and 15th of January 2005 on Tihama Coastal Plain between

Even if the Desert Locust has been the most feared agricultural pest in the northern part of Africa for thousands of years, the threat it posed to the rural food security in marginal subsistence areas and its impacts on the welfare of the farming

The Pacific Disaster Net is a web-based portal that will help to link disaster management specialists and resources throughout the Pacific region....

Main goal of the booklet is to encourage general public to prepare for emergencies and to maintain that readiness.

Training Book, published in an abstract version for the training of the volunteers of the cyclone preparedness program in preparedness activities. It covers subjects like analysis capacity and vulnerability, introduction to cyclones, warning signals and

This booklet is a guide for children which explains, in a narrative way, what a flood, flash flood are, their various intensities and frequencies, the water cycle, their more or less dangerous aspects. Precautions to take against disaster also feature at

This booklet is a guide for children that deals in a narrative way, with the earthquake problem. It gives definitions of: earthquake, magnitude, epicenter, furnace, fault, plate tectonics, waves, after-shock, seismograms, Richter and Mercalli scales

This booklet for children explains what necessary action should be taken in the event of an earthquake. The first part gives some measures to be taken before an earthquake, whether at home, on a street or at school. The second part explains what measures