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 [...]

There is growing evidence of the effects of climate change in Ethiopia – rainfall is becoming less predictable, with late onset, early cessation and poor spatial and temporal distribution; the impacts of El Niño and La Niña are becoming more [...]

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Global Report on Internal Displacement is the official repository of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's GRID discusses the relationship between climate change, disasters and displacement, and presents good practices from across the [...]

This practice shows the services available to farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Timor-Leste provides in pursuing the agriculture sector's modernization. It describes the importance of Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the CA model applied in Timor-Leste. It [...]

This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package. This practice was tested in Timor-Leste, a tropical warm agroecologic zone. In areas [...]