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.

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Documents and publications

Seventy per cent of the world’s extreme poverty is found in agricultural areas where farmers depend on rain for their harvests - and where too much or too little rain spells disaster. ActionAid’s field work confirms that climate-induced declines in crop

ActionAid International
Update

“The current lack of capacity and technical equipment has resulted in a ‘black hole’ of weather information in some countries,” said Vladimir Tsirkunov, Senior Environmental Engineer for Europe and Central Asia...

World Bank Institute
Floods 2008 Bolivia Assessment of the Accumulated and Additional Impact Caused by La Nina
Documents and publications

This Damage and Loss Assessment estimates total damage and losses caused by heavy rains that caused floods in Bolivia in 2007-2008

Bolivia - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations - Headquarters
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL)
DLNA Madagascar 2008
Documents and publications

The Government of Madagascar undertook a comprehensive damage and loss and needs assessment to ascertain the extent of the damages caused by the three consecutive cyclones in 2008, and to define a comprehensive and feasible recovery plan.

Madagascar - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications

This document is the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art and worldwide overview of scientific knowledge related to the mitigation of climate change. It includes a

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Cambridge University Press
Policies and plans

The National Action Program to Combat Desertification is an instrument with national scope that aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in the semi-arid environments of northern Tunisia.

Tunisia - government
Displacement
Feature

After Hurricanes Iota and Eta ripped through Central America in 2020, many were forced to flee with little more than the wet clothes on their backs, leaving their houses destroyed and even bodies of family members buried in thick mud. Instead of returning

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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