Natural hazard‑induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long‑lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. With climate change set to amplify many of these impacts, a “business‑as‑usual” approach to disaster risk management in agriculture [...]

An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited all main food producing areas in Timor-Leste from 27 April to 9 May 2021 to estimate the 2021 crop production and the import requirements during the 2021/22 marketing year (April/March). The [...]

This practice explains what a dzud is, the condition, and the impact of dzud events on local herding communities in Mongolia. It further highlights the importance of Early Warning Anticipatory Action (EWAA) systems to anticipate and mitigate dzuds' impacts and [...]

This webinar is jointly hosted by USAID’s SCALE and PRO-WASH awards, as part of their collaboration on sustainable agriculture and integrated water resources management. Thursday 29 April8:30am - 9:30am ESTRegister here This webinar will share innovative advances in two projects focusing on early warning, climate change, [...]

On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms [...]