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Displaying 75 of about 160 resultsThe climate change is now a reality that can no longer be ignored. The challenges caused by the climate change are becoming evident each day and need to be addressed with trained and capable experts all over the world in order to minimize the damages and consequences. Past natural disasters have made clear the need for improvement in this sector and ho…
The international scientific conference on advanced scientific tools for desertification policy will be held at the IFAD, Rome, Italy, on 28 and 29 September 2010.
The conference aims to “set up a discussion on the scientific research tools and results, recently achieved at the European and international levels addressing desertification assessment and…
Six years after Nigeria and other African states signed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR), disasters of various magnitudes continue to destroy properties and render survivors homeless in Nigeria. This is further compounded by substandard housing; inadequate and/or poor, in many cases outright absence of basic infras…
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Afghanaid is an international non-for-profit organization, registered in England under the Company Limited and the Charity Commission law, with a Board of Trustees and a small liaison office registered in the United Kingdom and the Head Office in Kabul. Afghanaid has 18 field offices throughout Ghor, Badakhshan, Samangan and Nur…
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) is looking for Disaster Risk Reduction Early Warning Systems Specialist for its field staff roster, willing to be deployed at short notice to various parts of the world. As a Disaster Risk Reduction Early Warning Systems Specialist on an MSB operation you can be working within one or several of the following…
By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
Danyore, Pakistan - One night was all it took for Bibi Baskiya’s fortunes to be reversed. In June the young farmer had sown maize on half an acre of land in Danyore, a scenic mountain village in northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan province.
On Sept. 12 it was sunny and the skies were so clear that Baskiya watered her…
By Kizito Makoye
Dodoma, Tanzania - At a remote agricultural research centre in drought-prone central Tanzania, farmers have learned how to use real-time weather information delivered to their mobile handsets to work out more suitable planting dates, boosting their yields.
The FarmSMS initiative, led by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), aims t…
South Africa must formally declare a national disaster for the government to release relief funds to help farmers through the worst drought in a century, the country's largest grain producer group said on Wednesday, reports Reuters.
With five out of nine provinces labelled disaster zones due to drought, the country now needs to acknowledge the situatio…
The Easter holidays will be used to embark on a campaign to raise awareness about disaster management issues in Limpopo, a province that is regularly afflicted by extreme weather conditions such as floods, drought and veld fires, reports Sydney Masinga for News24. “We want to communicate the prevention and mitigation actions which will reduce the probab…
The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) held a conference at the World Travel Market (WTM) 2011 on meeting the challenges of climate change and the international experts sitting on the panel presented leading models of best practice. The Seychelles highlighted their disaster risk reduction activities.
Alain St. Ange, CEO of the Sey…
Los desastres afectan a nuestras sociedades en lo más hondo. Sólo durante este año hemos asistido al triple desastre del Japón (el terremoto y tsunami en la región de Tōhoku y el accidente en el reactor nuclear de Fukushima), a intensas lluvias monzónicas en Pakistán, a inundaciones en Australia y Tailandia, a un terremoto en Nueva Zelandia, a huracanes…
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…
Today the international aid organization, CARE, launched a new report highlighting the ten most underreported humanitarian crises of 2018. Climate change plays an increasing and often exacerbating role in humanitarian crises that have been neglected by the global public, such as in Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti.
“Not only are the people who live in th…
As the parched city struggles to find water, simple measures like turning off taps and using less water per flush could help
By Megan Rowling
ROTTERDAM - With water supplies shrinking to crisis levels in the Indian metropolis of Chennai, one key solution has been overlooked - persuading residents to use less water, said the man in charge of…
By Andres Ignacio
Talking at a recent civil society and government conference on climate change adaptation and planning for disaster risk reduction and management ESSC Research Director Pedro Walpole singled out seven points that are critical to the Philippine context.
These points are:
- Watershed management and integration
- Classification of event…