DRM Webinar II - Assessing risks and impacts from extreme events/natural hazards on the agriculture sector

This webinar was organised with support from the European Union.
Disaster risk reduction and management in agriculture webinar series: Assessing risks and impacts from extreme events/natural hazards on the agriculture sector
30 May 2017 – 15.00 - 16.30 CEST
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Speakers:
- Oscar Rojas,Natural Resources Officer (Agrometeorology), FAO
- Niccolo Lombardi, Expert in Disaster Impacts and DRR, FAO
Moderator:
- Stephan Baas, Strategic Advisor on Resilience, 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:
- Monitoring risk in agriculture - the Agriculture Stress Index System
- Damage and loss from disasters on agriculture and food security - recent data and the new SFDRR monitoring mechanism - indicator C2
Webinar video
Related links
- Sendai Framework
- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
- Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED)
- The Impact of Natural Hazards and Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security
- Resilient Livelihoods: Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition security
- FAO Strategic Programme on Resilience
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- FAO Policy Series: Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture (video)
- DRM webinar series
- DRM webinar I: Governing and managing disaster risk in the agriculture sector
- DRM webinar III: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture