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Displaying 15 of about 92 resultsThis report shows the results of a nationwide risk assessment aimed to develop a comprehensive disaster risk profile for Rwanda. It covers five major natural hazards prevailing in Rwanda namely; droughts, floods, landslides, earthquakes and windstorms. The elements at risk considered in the assessment are: population, agriculture, health, education, hou…
This report originates from a taskforce of academics, industry and policy experts to examine the resilience of the global food system to extreme weather events. This synthesis report is built on three detailed reports: Climate and global production shocks, Review of the responses to production shocks and the Country-level impacts of global grain product…
American Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2015, doi: 10.12691/ajrd-3-2-2:
This research paper explores the ‘atlas of the locally adopted strategies’ to cope with adverse effects of cyclone Aila in southwest coastal Bangladesh. Particularly, this research has explored the community level practices in agriculture, housing, water resources, co…
This policy brief identifies possible implications of climate change disturbances on crops and livestock in world production centers by 2030, 2050 and 2080. Most of the studies on food systems under climate change are producer-centric, while this brief looks at options for importing countries, and discusses some recommendations.
The imperative of clima…
This study develops a framework for providing policy makers in Pacific island countries with the specific (quantitative and qualitative) information they need to formulate policies for counterbalancing—or at least minimizing—the negative impacts of climate change, specially on food security and economic livelihood.
Given the significant role in both emp…
This report presents innovative policies and progammes which countries have adopted to accelerate progress on the MDGs. The aim is to help document policy innovations for SDG implementation, but also keep the focus on the unfinished business of the MDGs as countries and the global community make the transition to implementation of the post-2015 Developm…
This study addresses how the limited understanding of investments in land use mitigation and adaptation inhibits the design of efficient and effective public interventions. For this reason, governments do not know in many cases how much finance is being channeled to the land-use sector, how it is being delivered, what is being paid for and by whom.
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This guide aims to help to save the lives and livelihoods of people in the fisheries and aquaculture sector who have been affected by disasters and humanitarian emergencies. It aims to do this by improving the quality of the design, implementation and assessment of interventions in fisheries and aquaculture in the wake of disasters. It draws on best pra…
This factsheet explains briefly how climate change affects hunger and vulnerable populations most at risk. It also highlights how WFP is working to build resilience against climate change and climate related-risks.
This study assesses the impact of medium to large scale natural hazards and disasters on the agriculture sector and subsectors in developing countries between 2003 and 2013, focusing on direct physical damage and indirect economic losses.
The findings of the study are expected to support national and international efforts to reduce damage and losses ca…
This guidance note provides an overview of gender and diversity issues and the practical measures that Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers should bear in mind when designing, implementing and evaluating food security programmes. It is based on the IFRC’s Strategic Framework on Gender and Diversity Issues (2013 – 2020).
This publication is the summary of the thematic studies conducted by FAO on the interactions between climate change and plant, animal, forest, aquatic, invertebrate and micro-organism genetic resources.
It highlights that genetic resources for food and agriculture play a crucial role in food security, nutrition and livelihoods and in the provision of e…
Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) is a set of international guidelines and standards for designing, implementing, and evaluating livestock interventions to help people affected by humanitarian crises. It seeks to harmonize relief and development programming to allow development professionals to help communities to become more resilient…
This study examines the effects of two megatrends – climate change and urbanization – on environmental emergencies. It considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies. It argues that these trends are posing multiple challenges for emergency responders by overwhelming national and local-level emergency preparedness…
This report looks at the use of insurance as a risk management tool in agrarian and poor communities in the Asia-Pacific region, highly vulnerable to climate change. Insurance has been increasingly advocated both by the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities, but there is no clear evidence to what extent insurance has been abl…