Protecting livestock and agricultural production during floods and droughts
15/02/2017
In Bolivia, seasonal flooding is common in the lowland and low slope (1 percent) department of Beni, where some of the most important rivers converge. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) identified the important practice of [...]
Consolidating community resilience by strengthening households’ social, productive and financial capacities through an integrated approach
30/11/2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been promoting the ‘Caisses de résilience’ approach, a resilience-building initiative implemented in Uganda since 2008 through the Agro-pastoral Field School methodology. 'Caisses de résilience’ (CdR) is an integrated community-centered [...]
18/10/2016
Ce webinaire a été organisé avec le soutien de l'Union européenne.
18 octobre 2016 – 15.00-16.30 CEST
Présentateur :
Alexis Bonte, Représentant de la FAO a.i. en République démocratique du Congo;
Paulin Kakule, Économiste et Expert en microfinance communautaire, bureau FAO en République centrafricaine
Modératrice :
Sylvie Wabbes, Chargée [...]
Building resilience in disaster prone areas in Central America’s Dry Corridor
21/09/2016
The most vulnerable part of Central America is the “Corredo Seco” (Dry Corridor), an area running across of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, which is characterized by very variable and extreme weather conditions: regular abnormal dry spells and droughts, [...]
07/07/2016
This webinar was organised with support from the European Union.
7 July 2016 – 15.00-16.30 CEST
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Speaker:
Alexis Bonte, FAO, Regional Resilience Coordinator for Africa region and currently FAO Representative a.i. in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Alberto Bigi, Resilience and [...]