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Displaying 75 of about 196 resultsThis paper on climate change, food security and agricultural responses aims at delivering solutions to increase vulnerable farmers' resilience and to enable them to help combat climate change.
It considers vulnerable farmers and pastoralists – including particularly vulnerable groups such as women – as key partners and addresses institutions to support…
Oxfam briefing paper 133:
This report addresses the need to adopt a new approach to humanitarian disasters which focuses on preparing communities to prevent and deal with hazards, such as drought, before they strike, rather than relying mainly on short-term emergency relief, such as imported food aid.
It argues that it is equally essential that donor…
By Julian Palma and Wais Ahmad Barmak
Afghanistan is vulnerable to a number of natural hazards, including earthquakes, flooding, drought, landslides and avalanches, as well as hazards arising from human interaction. Among low income countries, Afghanistan is second only to Haiti in terms of the number of fatalities caused by natural disasters between…
When international leaders met in the Bangladeshi capital last month for ongoing discussions about a new global migration policy, they glossed over what experts say will soon become a massive driver of migration: climate change.
“The international system is in a state of denial,” said A.N.M. Muniruzzaman, a retired major-general who now head…
By Kieran Guilbert
Dakar - Humanitarian groups in West Africa must focus more on helping vulnerable communities boost their resilience to cope with disasters and crises, the head of the Red Cross said on Tuesday, amid rising food insecurity in the Sahel and relentless Boko Haram violence.
Building resilience would save lives and reduce the cost of dis…
By Ilona Lalova
United Nations, New York – “The health and rights of women and adolescents should not be treated like an afterthought in humanitarian response,” Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA’s Executive Director, said today at the launch of the agency’s flagship report, The State of World Population 2015, in London.
Humanitarian crises are taking an…
"It is critical to ensure more open and consistent channels of communication between official negotiations addressing climate change and women leaders of civil society organizations who can relay the ground-truths. Women’s participation is not an option, but a strategic necessity", write Mary Robinson and Melanne Verveer in an opinion piece for The Guar…
The world cannot remain indifferent toward disaster risks in low-income countries, panelists at an event hosted by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) warned on Tuesday. The panel discussion, entitled "Developing Capacities for Effective Disaster Risk Man…
Reducing vulnerability and strengthening resilience are critical to securing human development progress, the United Nations says in a flagship report released today that examines the risks posed by natural or human-induced disasters and crises and offers ways to tackle them.
The 2014 Human Development Report, launched in Tokyo by the UN Development Pro…
Pigeon peas, the new maize?
Mbeere South - Faced with increasingly unreliable rains, farmers in Kenya's eastern district of Mbeere South have started growing drought-tolerant crops to meet their food and subsistence needs instead of the staple maize.
"The rains have become [scarce]... This is the fourth year we have had insufficient rain," Harrieta Ny…
Delegates Adopt 6 Draft Resolutions, 1 Oral Decision, Deferring Other Action
Faced with conflicts in the Arab world and other global challenges, the General Assembly had “stood strong, active and responsive” over the past year, making key advances in dispute settlement, United Nations reform, disaster prevention and sustainable development, Nassir Abdu…
NEW YORK, 25 September 2019 – The UK, Japan and Bhutan announced that they have joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, following its launch this week by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Speaking at an event in the sidelines of the high-level meetings in New York, Prakash Javadekar, India’s Minister for Environment and Cl…
NEW YORK, 24 October 2013 - The 2013 International Day for Disaster Reduction has seen remarkable efforts by artists and the creative community at large to rally for an inclusive and resilient world.
At the UN Headquarters this month, the off-Broadway Theater Breaking Through Barriers premiered their play 'Ready, Willing and Able' bringing alive on sta…
OSLO, 24 September 2013 - The Mayor of Oslo, Mr. Fabian Stang, last night announced that the Norwegian capital has joined UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign and linked it to the tragic events of July 2011 when 77 people were murdered in bombings and a mass shooting.
Addressing disaster risk policymakers and practitioners from 28 European countri…
GENEVA, 23 May 2013 - The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for "the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk" in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary.
Global Platform Chai…