This webinar was organised with support from the European Union.

Disaster risk reduction and management in agriculture webinar series: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture 

20 July 2017 – 10:30 - 12:00 CEST

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Speakers:

• Emmanuel Zziwa, Climate Change Adaptation Expert, FAO Representation in Uganda
• Jiwon Rhee, Climate Resilience Officer, FAO

Moderator:

• Niccolò Lombardi, Expert in Disaster Impacts and DRR, FAO

Over the past decade, economic damages resulting from natural hazards have amounted to USD 1.5 trillion caused by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides, as well as hydro-meteorological hazards, including storms, floods, droughts and wild fires. Climate-related disasters, in particular, are increasing worldwide and expected to intensify with climate change. They disproportionately affect food insecure, poor people – over 75 percent of whom derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Agricultural livelihoods can only be protected from multiple hazards if adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts are strengthened within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems. 

This webinar covers:

• How to measure the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture – approaches, methods and findings from FAO’s preliminary study;
• A case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level; and
• A perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.