Successful approaches from different regions
21/12/2018
This publication presents different climate-smart approaches for the agricultural sectors to achieve the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (CSA):
to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and improve the incomes and livelihoods of farmers;
to build resilience and adaptation to climate change;
to reduce and/or [...]
Elevated risk of deterioration in food security in pastoral areas across the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin
03/07/2018
Poor rains in 2017 affected livestock across the pastoral areas of the Sahel. Persisting insecurity hampers access of animals to the grazing areas in northeastern Nigeria, northern Mali and the Lake Chad Region. Large concentrations of livestock in safe areas [...]
29/03/2018
Over recent decades, the NGOs of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform have been involved in disaster risk reduction activities around the globe, many of which are directly or indirectly related to the use and management of land resources, including soils, [...]
22/03/2018
In 2017, almost 124 million people across 51 countries and territories faced Crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above or equivalent) and required urgent humanitarian action. In 2016 the population in need of urgent [...]
05/03/2018
Entre 2011 et début 2016 l’Organisation des Nations Unis pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture a mis en œuvre au Niger un total de 65 projets nationaux, avec une dépense totale d’environ 50 millions de dollars.
En 2016 une évaluation du Programme de [...]