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Displaying 30 of about 68 resultsWindhoek (Namibia), 27 August 2011 – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Disaster Risk Reduction Unit in partnership with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and UNISDR is conducting a disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders training workshop from 27-28 August 2011. The workshop will be held along…
28 June 2011, Geneva - Over 10 million people from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda will be severely affected by severe drought, with no likelihood of improvement until 2012, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of humanitarian Affairs warned in an alert yesterday.
The Alert also flagged that 2010-2011 has been the driest period…
Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday (July 12) announced the new and improved Alien Forest Pest Explorer interactive web tool.
The user-friendly dashboard combines information from multiple sources to show the impact of different forest insects and diseases, and the potential for further damage. The interactive and customizable dash…
Aarhus University and the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) invite researchers to Aarhus University on the October 3-4, 2013 in order to take stock of and assess the scientific progress towards tackling the grand environmental challenges, as specified in the Horizon 2020 challenge: Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materia…
This publication assesses skill and reliability in predicting agro-climate indicators, co-designed with and for European wheat farmers. Seasonal climate forecasts are a key component of sectoral climate services. The main findings show how seasonal climate forecast provides useful information for decision-making processes in the European winter wheat-pr…
UN pre-summit on food systems pledges to put science behind ‘transformation’
Talks come as UN report reveals stark rise in global hunger
Experts call for innovative approaches to tackle disaster and climate risks
By Dann Okoth
Science and innovation must be at the centre of global food system transformation to drive sustainable agricultural produ…
The core objective of the project is to develop and rollout mobile based bundled financial and advisory services. This project supports and engages with the public and private partners to develop services that are both economically viable and meet the demands of smallholder farmers in order to provide them with relevant, timely, high-quality information…
Enzymes that control a plant's response to lower oxygen levels could be manipulated to make vital crops resistant to the impacts of flooding triggered by climate change, new research shows.
Co-author Dr Mark White in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney said: "Climate change is a major global issue, not least for its impact on…
By Giriraj Amarnath, Samantha Collins
As the crew of Apollo 13 famously understated when their spacecraft was shaken by an onboard explosion 300,000 km above the earth -- we have a problem.
The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report warns that almost 9% of the world's population is undernourished. Almost 20% of these unde…
When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. This was true before the novel coronavirus and it's certainly true now. The climate crisis compounded by the global health crisis leaves the most vulnerable even more at risk.
Around 74% of natural disasters between 2001 and 2018 were water related. During th…
Tekniker, a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), is participating in the European GreenPatrol project whose main goal is focused on setting up an innovative system based on artificial intelligence to improve agricultural production in greenhouses as a means to cope with challenges arising in this field.
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GreenPatrol is an a…
By Giriraj Amarnath, Research Group Leader, Water Risks and Development Resilience (WRDR)
The recently published World Water Development Report 2020 (WWDR 2020) highlights current impacts and anticipated future risks associated with extreme weather events, and the need for sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster…
Indian farmers take aim at climate disasters through bundling high-tech solutions
By Giriraj Amarnath
Increasingly unpredictable weather is becoming a major hazard across the globe. In South Asia, more than 750 million people are vulnerable to natural disasters, such as the monsoon floods that recently caught Indian farmers and forecas…
By Peter Rüegg
Without the climate change caused by human activity, simultaneous heatwaves would not have hit such a large area as they did last summer. This is the conclusion of researchers at ETH Zurich based on observational and model data.
Many people will remember last summer – not only in Switzerland, but also in large swathes across the…
By Arun Khatri-Chhetri and Shehnab Sahin
The convergence of the goals of private sector giant ITC Limited and those of CCAFS in India is helping to boost the case for climate-resilient agriculture
The expansive role of the Indian private sector in contributing to an improved and sustainable future can be gauged from the preceding years’ investmen…