Food security and agriculture

Activities aimed to ensure access to and availability of adequate food supplies and the preservation of agricultural livelihoods under the pressures of climate hazards and food chains threats.

Latest Food security & agriculture additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

This paper shows how expert-driven and explainable artificial intelligence models can probabilistically detect multiple agriculture-related hazards.

Communications Earth & Environment (Nature)
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Documents and publications

The April 2025 CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases, as part of its monitoring of countries at risk of famine and to provide early warnings of impending crop shortfalls.

Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative
Women working in an agricultural field in the outskirts of Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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New agricultural insurance products have been launched today tailored for smallholder horticulture farmers in Uzbekistan. The insurance covers six key crops across five region to aid climate-vulnerable horticulture farmers.

Insurance Development Forum
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Action Against Hunger is working to identify the early warning signs of rising hunger and malnutrition.

Action Against Hunger International
Vegetable market, India
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For women farmers in rural India, the effects of climate change are compounded by limited access to finance, smaller plots and fewer land rights. Parametric insurance products can offer better protection.

World Economic Forum
Update

Climate change is fuelling the spread of crop-destroying fall armyworm in Zimbabwe, dealing another blow to drought-hit farmers.

Context
Two African women working at a salad plantation
Research briefs

More than half of global cropland areas could see a decline in the number of suitable crops under a warming scenario of 2C, new research finds.

Carbon Brief
Research briefs

Insect predators found in the United States could help keep spotted lanternfly populations in check while potentially reducing reliance on chemical control methods, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Penn State.

Pennsylvania State University
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