To reduce the number of deaths and injuries, the government has teamed up with NGOs to launch pilot programmes in the southern provinces, where children are taught how to swim and cope during the annual floods...
Climate change can significantly reverse the progress towards poverty reduction and food security in Africa, according to a paper presented to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regional Conference for Africa being held in Luanda, Angola this week...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
'Today's Executive Order directs CAL FIRE to immediately mobilize additional personnel and equipment, meaning more firefighters, more engines, more helicopters and more planes. We will not be caught off-guard or under-equipped. When Mother Nature strikes, we will be ready,' said Governor Schwarzenegger...
Prone to cyclones as well as storm induced flooding and surges, almost 10,000 people lost their lives in a devastating super-cyclone that hit state's coastal districts in October 1999.
The National Science Foundation has awarded three major Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants to study how the Chilean quake happened, and learn from those findings for the future...
The two-day community-based training event, organized by the National Disaster Management Centre, covered three main aspects of disaster risk reduction: hazard mapping and contingency planning; safety steps and fire prevention; and fire extinguishing techniques and emergency assistance...
One common DRR strategy is a famine early warning system, which uses technology to assess hydrometeorological and geographical vulnerabilities to drought and famine. According to critiques of the Hyogo Framework for Action on DRR, drought constitutes an international policy protection gap...
Aunque Chiapas es una región de muy alta vulnerabilidad y con una población dispersa, las autoridades locales se han propuesto una meta de trabajar en ese sentido con la población, 'para que estén informadas, que conozcan los riesgos, que puedan tomar medidas y reducir así el impacto de los riesgos'...
Durante su visita a Chiapas, la representante especial del Secretario General de Naciones Unidas para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres, Margareta Walhström y la coordinadora General de Protección Civil de la Secretaría de Gobernación, Laura Gurza Jaidar, recorrieron la Ciudad Rural Nuevo Juan del Grijalva...
