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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A farmer tends to his maize crop in Talquezal, Guatemala
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To protect smallholder maize and rice farmers from climate-related hazards, the InsuResilience Solutions Fun partnered with an international consortium to develop the country's first parametric insurance solution for smallholder farmers.

InsuResilience Solutions Fund
Research briefs

Tapping low-hanging clouds could be a cheap way to boost dwindling water supplies, according to new research.

Grist Magazine
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The Insurance Development Forum launched a US$9.25 million macroinsurance policy for Syria that will trigger a payout in the event of a drought in strategic food production areas, designed to support the World Food Programme's operations.

Insurance Development Forum
Cover and source: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications

This paper showcases a mixed-methods approach to highlight the importance of local policies in the debate on the climate-conflict nexus, centering on the Karamoja Cluster, a cross-border region between Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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As Famine Early Warning Systems Network goes offline, it now falls on Kenya to increase financial investments that support food security and build technical capacity to produce credible, reliable and timely food security forecasts.

Conversation Media Group, the
Yellow, dry maize field in the sun.
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Carbon Brief has analysed global media coverage over the past two years to identify reporting on extreme weather events damaging crops.

Carbon Brief
Shiny delicious apples hanging from a tree branch in an apple orchard
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FAO has released a series of comprehensive baseline studies of disaster risk reduction and management systems for agriculture in Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkmenistan.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
Research briefs

A new technique targeted the inconvenient heat-triggered process in most plants called photorespiration. Making this process genetically efficient could help crops adapt to climate change.

Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.
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