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Displaying 15 of about 39 resultsKivuGreen, a youth-led enterprise, is strengthening the climate resilience of small-scale farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through a mobile service which provides them with real-time forecasts and climate-smart agricultural advice. CEO Chris Ayale explains how KivuGreen contributes to climate adaptation and food security and describes how…
This study analyses HIV prevalence in rural Lesotho among adolescent girls exposed to severe drought, as well as the possible underlying causes of contraction, such as drought-responsive sex work and transactional marriages that inhibited educational attainment. To determine if there were any associations between drought and HIV-related outcomes, the au…
By Yvonne Munyangeri Uwase, Gloriose Nsengiyumva, and Desire Kagabo
In September 2018, members of the Rwanda Youth in Agriculture Forum learned to manage climate risks in agriculture through Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture training.
Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is a systematic…
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and rainfall shocks are often cited as the most important risk factor faced by households in rural, less developed and rain-fed agricultural settings. Now, research by University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Marta Vicarelli finds that such weather shocks experienced during the early stages of life have…
Suva –Local wisdom, ownership and leadership are critical factors for effective humanitarian action in support of communities exposed and vulnerable to climate and disaster risk. Preparedness and response planning need to be more collaborative and inclusive, the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) ’s webinar on ‘Local Humanitarian Action for a Res…
By Catharina Klingspor
Nestled between Gayle and Guy’s Hill, Jeffrey Town in north-eastern Jamaica is particularly exposed to natural disasters. At an elevation of 1,700 feet, the village is built on sloping terrain and has the highest total recorded number of landslides in the country.
This is where Jeffrey Town Farmers Association (JFTA)…
FAO warns that this trend undermines efforts to end hunger and poverty
Rome - After years of steady decline, child labour in agriculture has started to rise again in recent years driven in part by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters. This worrisome trend, not only threatens the wellbeing of millions of children, but also undermines e…
A publication entitled “30 Innovations for Disaster Risk Reduction” was released at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva in May 2019, which stated that only high-tech tools should not be considered innovative and useful; rather, an appropriate strategy is imperative to change the current global situation and tackle the complexi…
Five new bean varieties bred with high iron and resilience to the impacts of drought have been released in Uganda for the first time, as a cheap source of nutrition for poorer communities.
The varieties were released as part of the government’s strategy to tackle malnutrition and reduce anemia in the country, especially in children and expectant mother…
The changing climate in northwest Ghana puts farming livelihoods and food security at risk. Now a project with multiple strands — from youth engagement, to mobile phone apps, to community outreach centres — is empowering farmers with the knowledge they need to innovate and adapt. Prince Ansah and Lucia Scodanibbio report.
In the Upper West region of Gh…
Climate change is driving worsening hunger as farm families struggle to get a harvest
By Anastasia Moloney
Rising numbers of children in Guatemala are going hungry as drought linked to climate change reduces food harvests, fueling child malnutrition rates in the Central American nation, the United Nations and charities said.
Guatemala, whi…
This report summarizes the state of food security and agriculture in Indonesia in 2021 as well as the World Food Programme's (WFP) operations in the country. Indonesia has been re-classified as a lower-middle-income country based on its Gross National Income (GNI) of USD 3,870 per capita per year (World Bank, 2021). On the 2020 Global Hunger Index it is…
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc.
The publication include…
Despite the intuitive connection between drought and mortality, we still lack a sound quantitative synthesis of evidence drawn from the available data. This study evaluates the pooled under-five death rates (U5DR) and assess the effect of drought on child death in Ethiopia.
Small-scale mortality surveys were searched from the Complex Emergency Dat…
Both sudden on-set disasters and chronic long-term disasters have potential impacts on food security, disease and the nutritional status of vulnerable populations.
Whilst in a disaster everybody can be at risk of malnutrition, infants, young children, and pregnant and lactating women are particularly vulnerable.
Climate change will increase the risk o…