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Displaying 135 of about 242 resultsLa secretaria general adjunta para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres de la ONU, Margareta Wahlström, destacó que El Salvador, el país geográficamente más pequeño de América y con la mayor densidad poblacional de la región, ocupa el primer lugar en el listado mundial de vulnerabilidad.
Según reporta ABC Digital con fuentes de EFE, Wahlström se declar…
El Salvador - Los países de Centroamérica integraron una base de datos sobre el clima, con el objetivo de facilitar la evaluación del riesgo e identificación de acciones para la adaptación del cambio climático. Se quiere mejorar la gestión ambiental en la región, siendo una región pequeña donde la valoración del riesgo ante la variabilidad y el cambio c…
La Cumbre del Clima de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), sirve de escenario para que 193 países discutan sobre la cooperación técnica y económica en materia de cambio climático. En ese lugar, El Salvador trata de clarificar la fuente de proyecto que financie la reconstrucción de un país habituado a los desastres naturales, según La Página.…
The World Risk Index has classified Vanuatu, Tonga, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Guatemala as the most at risk of disasters according to AlertNet.
Peter Mucke, managing director of Alliance Development Works, declares that 'The World Risk Report shows the need to focus in the future more on disaster risk reduction than just on humanitarian…
El presidente de la república, Mauricio Funes, inauguró hoy el “Foro Permanente para la Reducción de las Vulnerabilidades”, un programa que busca promover una plataforma nacional de reducción de riesgos en el país, segun Byron Sosa por La Prensa Grafica. El foro permanente busca sistematizar la acción pública y privada para evitar desastres en caso de e…
On February 13, 2001, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred about 40 km East-Southeast of the capital city of San Salvador. It was the second major damaging earthquake to strike El Salvador in 1 month. On January 13, 2001, a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of about 39 km, approximately 60 km off the coast south of the city of Usul…
At the back of a brick building in a poor neighborhood of Acajutla—El Salvador's largest and oldest port—you can just make out the foundation of Marlene Canjura's former home. It was a small, metal-walled shack with a dirt floor and no toilet on the premises. During floods—and they come at least once a year here—water would rise as high as her thighs, s…
Con el objetivo de desarrollar un sistema de coordinación mesoamericano de información territorial entre usuarios y proveedores, en el cual la reducción de riesgos de desastres naturales sea un eje transversal del desarrollo, se llevó a cabo en nuestro país el taller de arranque del Sistema Mesoamericano de Información Territorial para el Desarrollo…
Experts from the Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) and the World Bank are currently in El Salvador to assist the Government in assessing the impact of hurricane Ida and develop comprehensive disaster recovery, reconstruction and risk reduction.
The hurricane, which hit El Salvador on Saturday, November 7, caused devastation in the country…
Irregular rains from 1998 until winter 2001 - particularly in the east of El Salvador - seriously damaged the crops of families on subsistence incomes. Other natural disasters and an economic crisis further aggravated the situation. To reverse the effects of the drought, the Spanish Red Cross, the Salvadorean Red Cross Society and the Regional Delegatio…
Por Edgardo Ayala
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América Central ha sido calificada, por varios reportes de organismos internacionales, como una de las regiones más vulnerables del planeta ante los embates del cambio climático.
Y sin embargo, no terminan de desarrollarse en el istmo herramientas que ayuden a los agricultores a aminorar los golpes climatológicos, como los se…
225,000 people to benefit from the FAO-designed project which will receive $91.8 million from the Salvadoran Government and the Initiative for the Americas Fund.
The Green Climate Fund today approved RECLIMA, a $127.7 million FAO-designed project that aims to improve the climate resilience of farming systems in El Salvador's Dry Corridor whil…
Drought has led to the loss of some 280,000 hectares of beans and maize in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, affecting the food security of more than 2 million people
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today expressed concern over the drought that has caused major crop losse…
By Juan Jose Miranda and Oscar A. Ishizawa
Countries are facing increasingly frequent negative impacts from adverse natural events. Central America, a region prone and vulnerable to disasters, is a clear example. Just from 1992 to 2011, Central America was hit by nearly 70 hurricanes with an average of 8 events per year, hindering sustainable economic…
Reporting for Devex on the promising progress this week’s 2nd World Reconstruction Conference in Washington, Rolf Rosenkranz argued that local ownership and governance, as well as coordination among public, private and civil society stakeholders, is crucial to the success of any disaster risk reduction or resiliency plan.
Citing the remarks of El Salva…