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 series of three webinars on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) in agriculture is organized to:

• Discuss the new opportunities and pressing challenges in reducing and managing disaster risk in agriculture;
• Learn and share experiences about disaster risk reduction and management good practices based on concrete examples from the field; discuss how to create evidence and conditions for upscaling of good practices; and
• Exchange experiences and knowledge with partners around resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.

WEBINAR II: Assessing risks and impacts from extreme events/natural hazards on the agriculture sector with focus on drought

30 May 2017  -  15.00-16.30 CEST (UTC+2)

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Speakers:

• Mr. Oscar Rojas, Natural Resources Officer (Agrometeorology), FAO
• Mr. Niccolo Lombardi, Expert in Disaster Impacts and DRR, FAO

Moderator:

• Stephan Baas, Strategic Advisor on Resilience, FAO

This webinar will cover: 

• 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