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Displaying 15 of about 61 resultsThis report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050.
It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 mi…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
This research examines the viability of the Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in enabling more direct funding to local actors so they can better prepare and shape their own response actions when disasters caused by natural hazards strike (as currently designed, it is not applicable in certain contexts such as large-scale humanitarian emergencies and conflic…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
This document presents the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)'s role, approach, and progress made towards the integrated delivery of adaptation support and disaster risk reduction in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. It illus…
Technical series no. 87:
This guide’s primary purpose is to provide a summary of the operational procedures of the Centers*, an overview of the seismic and sea level monitoring networks used by the Centers, the criteria for issuing tsunami messages, and the methods by which messages are sent.
The Guide is intended for use by the responsible agencies wi…
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learnt from evaluations of relief and recovery responses to past slow-onset disasters – particularly drought, and food and livelihoods insecurity. The paper is intended for people working in relief and recovery operations for slow-onset disasters – those who have to decide if, when and how to inter…
This report outlines the practical lessons learned by CARE about Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change, and explores how elements of the approach are evolving and being integrated into other development sectors.
Drawing on analysis of 16 CBA project examples from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, the report presents case s…
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the state of research on the complex issues surrounding ´climate change and drylands`. It reveals systematically the various interrelations and feedback mechanisms, with detailed information about the contribution of drylands to climate change, recent and projected climatic changes and their impacts on dryland…
This media briefing features information about the characteristics of El Niño, its effects and impacts on food security around the world. According to the briefing, millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central America face hunger and poverty this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains as global temperatures reach new records…
This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response to El Niño 2015-2016 in countries already in crisis. It also draws on the experience of the super El Niño in 1997–98, and the inadequate response to the Horn of Africa drought of 2011, to push for early action to save livelihoods elsewhere.
Millions of poor and vulnerable people fac…
South-South cooperation is presented as a key proposal plan for South America and Asia-Pacific Regions to generate capacity building and espertise in the fields of Sciences of risks and disaster management and disaster reduction in South America, Latin America and the Caribbean regions.
Disaster risk management and reduction policy, the intergovernment…