The intensity and frequency of natural hazards and conflicts is increasing, and they are leaving in their wake an unprecedented level of humanitarian needs. Natural hazards alone occur nearly five times as often today as 40 years ago. The number [...]

When: Thursday 29 October 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT Moderator: Lynn Michalopoulos, Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, USAID Bureau for Food Security Speakers: Jill Scantlan, Regional Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Advisor, South and East Asia, Mercy Corps Tim Frankenberger, President, TANGO International Click here to register Join [...]

The Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Community of Practice (CoP), in conjunction with members and partners, is pleased to announce the RMEL CoP Conference 2018. This conference will convene: resilience measurement and research specialists; resilience monitoring, evaluation and learning practitioners; and [...]

A dzud is a term used in Mongolia to describe a very harsh winter which is preceded by a hot and dry summer. The combination of these two events results in limited availability of fodder and wheat, a key food [...]

The Mediterranean fruit fly (or medfly), Ceratitis capitata Wied., is considered a major agricultural pest worldwide because of its direct damage to fruit and vegetable production, and restrictions imposed to commercialization of horticultural commodities by countries free of the pest. [...]