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The initiative will empower women and families around the world to improve food security, create markets and adapt to climate change by merging Cornell's cutting-edge research in economic development and sustainability with CARE's experience fighting poverty around the world...

'We are worried. Many of us have raised the issue of safety measures and early warning systems,' South Tourism Federation secretary general Kannikar Eawsakun said, following coastal residents' panic in the wake of the 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on April 11...

'We are operating in a security environment that has worsened,' said EU's humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, pertaining to the deteriorated situation in Libya, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, where 12 million people risk starvation as a result of drought and conflicts in the region...

The latest predictions, described as a 'worst possible scenario,' presents more realistic suppositions than those released in late March. 'The latest damage predictions should serve as food for thought for each and every resident over what they should do'...

'That'll be to identify the risks and help prioritise and implement the mitigation strategies and that will be funded through the Natural Disaster Resilience Program,' said Acting corporate services general manager Ian Stevenson...

'People were well prepared on how to evacuate. Everyone knew what to do, what routes to take,' Major General Gamini Hettiarchchi, the director general of Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre said...

Whether the earthquake is minor or major, visitors of the new U.S. Geological Survey webpages will see a unique, interactive earthquake map that regularly updates, can be individually tailored, and provides saved settings for future map visits...

Yuwan Malakar has good reason to be focused and driven these days. The 30-year old environmental management major from Nepal has just had his first paper on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) published in one of the highly respected online journals of the Policy Studies Organization.