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Displaying 270 of about 380 resultsThis conference will bring together plant health professionals and invasive species experts from across Great Britain & beyond, to discuss novel strategies for improving plant biosecurity and establish a sustainable knowledge exchange. The conference is organised against the backdrop of the Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain, as relea…
The steady increase in climate related disasters such as floods, cyclones, storm surges and drought have increased the exposure and vulnerability of communities, their livelihoods, physical infrastructure and economic networks. An increasing hazard risk results in higher human and economic losses from disaster events.
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This Westminster Energy & Transport Forum conference will examine the priorities for UK climate change adaptation and planning ahead, as preparations are put in place for publication of the National Adaptation Programme in 2018.
Policymakers and stakeholders will discuss the practicalities of adaption plans for priority areas highlighted in Defra’s…
Adopting a novel planting technique known as “push-pull farming” can help massively reduce crop losses to pests and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa, new research has found.
The fall armyworm – an invasive pest – has recently invaded and rapidly spread across large areas of Africa, where it has become a major threat to agriculture, sustainab…
The desert locust outbreak requires several levels of response from national and regional governance structures.
We know that environmental disasters are a function of our disregard for the environment we have been entrusted to steward. The current desert locust plague is a timely reminder that the consequences of climate change enables environmental d…
These Guidelines are resource documents containing information on best practice for locust detection, prediction and control, for use by national and international organisations and institutions involved in Desert Locust survey and control.
FAO encourages affected countries to disseminate this information as widely as possible to personnel involved wit…
This map illustrates the likelihood that a given region will sustain any drought, flood, or locust infestation within any given year.
Earthquakes are not included in the joint probability calculation because large damaging events occur on a far less frequent time scale than the other three hazard types. The map suggests that most regions of the Horn co…
This report provides an assessment of the achievements and progress made in disaster risk reduction (DRR) by Burkina Faso during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It describes country’s recent experience with natural hazards and disasters, such as drought, flood, epidemics and insect infestation, also presents national ins…
It is the end of December 2016, with clear skies over Niger. But as 2017 draws near prospects are grim for some 500 residents in Bani Kosseye, a village 80km from the capital Niamey. Agricultural production has been poor here, and families' meagre stocks are expected to run out within a few weeks. People already fear famine.
The main cause fo…
By Kerstin Kruger
The native range of the Fall armyworm – Spodoptera frugiperda – is in South and North America. But it’s rapidly spreading across Southern Africa. This follows the first reports of its arrival on the African continent in Nigeria in January 2016. Within a year it spread, reaching South Africa by January 2017.
The Fa…
Countries including China, Indonesia and Australia all face a “high threat” of invasion by the fall armyworm, new research shows.
The species, a moth whose caterpillars ravage crops, is native to the Americas but has spread to Africa and was recently discovered in India.
The new study, by the University of Exeter and the Centre for Agricultu…
A University of Queensland team has made a discovery that could help conquer the greatest threat to global food security – pests and diseases in plants.
Research leader Professor Neena Mitter said BioClay – an environmentally sustainable alternative to chemicals and pesticides – could be a game-changer for crop protection.
“In agricultu…
The International Potato Center (CIP) announces the launch of its free online mobile accessible Pest Risk Atlas for Africa that assesses potential pest risks under current and potential future climate conditions for a number of important pests that effect African agricultural and horticultural crops like potato, sweetpotato, vegetables, and ma…
New research announced today by scientists at CABI confirms that a recently introduced crop-destroying armyworm caterpillar is now spreading rapidly across Mainland Africa and could spread to tropical Asia and the Mediterranean in the next few years, becoming a major threat to agricultural trade worldwide.
Fall armyworm is native to North and South Ame…
Over 130 scientists from all over the world yesterday converged in Arusha at the 2nd International Whitefly Symposium (IWS2) to discuss one of the world’s most destructive agricultural pests, the whitefly, reports Daily News.
“To feed itself Africa must intensify its agricultural production to produce more from the same or even less land. Intensificati…