The latest eveidence clearly shows that levels of acute food insecurity are outpacing financing allocations, highlighting an unsustainable trend. Food aid accounts for the largest share of resources, which can only partially meet humanitarian needs. Agricultural and nutritional assistance are [...]

The 7th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Conference will bring together academics and development practitioners to present and discuss questions relating to Climate Change and Sustainable Cities.  This conference is hosted by the World Bank (Development Research Group), George Washington University (Elliott School [...]

As applications of resilience have increased the associated measurement options have grown. An unintended consequence of such growth is that the proliferation of resilience measurement approaches hinders efforts to generate evidence that is conceptually consistent and empirically comparable. To address this problem, [...]

  Making agriculture resilience for climate change The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change (in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, WASAG) has been designed to bring together key players across [...]

Date & Time: 3 october 2022 |13:00 – 14:30 hours (CEST) The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), annually celebrated on 13 October since 2009, promotes global awareness about the prevention and reduction of disaster risk and disaster losses in lives, [...]