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The Farmer’s Perspective: Climate Risk and Risk Management in Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Sector

STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE: Gender-lens investing in climate and disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions

The Differential Risk Transfer: a new approach for reducing vulnerability to climate-related hazards
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Supplemental irrigation for dry-spell mitigation of rain-fed agriculture in the Sahel

Unreliable and erratic rainfall combined with inherent low soil fertility in crust prone soils affect crop […]

Chapter 4: Major impacts of irrigation and drainage projects

In the detailed sections below, many of the impacts described are most extreme in the case […]

Food Price Watch | January 2012

Global food prices declined 8% between September and December 2011. Wheat, maize, and rice prices declined […]

Potential Global Crop Pest Distributions Using CLIMEX: Harvest Choice Applications

HarvestChoice provides data, information and tools to support strategic investment decisions in agriculture. Most agriculture processes […]

Globally Gridded Satellite Observations for Climate Studies

With the recent passing of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. weather satellite, questions on how to […]

Disaster Risk Management Programs for Priority Countries

At its 5th meeting in Copenhagen in November 2008, the GFDRR Consultative Group asked the Secretariat […]

Towards a Strategy for Financial Weather Risk Management

This report forms part of the technical assistance provided by the World Bank under the Non-lending […]

Review of changes in domestic cereal prices during the global price spikes

AMIS aims at improving the collection of statistics on various aspects of the national food economy and […]

Livelihood Security Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel

Aimed at supporting policy and decision-makers in the Member States of the region, adaptation and peacebuilding practitioners worldwide, […]

Catastrophic Drought Insurance based on the Remotely Sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe

Index insurance, which indemnifies agricultural producers based on an objectively observable variable that is highly correlated with […]

Pastoral Mobility Optimization based on a Mobile Geographic Information System (GIS) for Rural Development

This paper explores the use of mobile Geographic Information System (GIS) computing in its application in water point […]

Coping with Drought The Case of Poor Farmers of South Iran

The slow-onset disasters, like drought, consistently deplete farmers’ resources at a faster rate than they can […]

Mainstreaming Drought Risk Management: A Primer

The overall purpose of this Primer is to provide a basic roadmap for mainstreaming DRM into development […]

Review and Analysis of Existing Drought Risk Reduction Policies and Programmes in Kenya

A draft National Disaster Management Policy / Strategy for Kenya and a draft Arid and Semi-Arid Lands […]

Fighting Hunger in a Changing Climate: How Can Agriculture Respond?

Climate change is a major threat to sustainable food security. Temperatures are rising, precipitation patterns are changing, and […]

Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Ethiopia

Vulnerability analyses for Ethiopia suggest that environmental changes over the coming decades present a serious threat to […]

Food-security assessments in emergencies: a livelihoods approach

This paper describes the theory and practice of Oxfam GB’s livelihoods approach to assessing food security in emergencies. […]

HARVIST: A System for Agricultural and Weather Studies Using Advanced Statistical Methods

Remote sensing instruments in Earth orbit provide a rich source of information about current agricultural conditions. Observed over […]

Geospatial Climate Data

In recent years, plot specific crop models have been adapted to national and regional scales to aid […]

Biotechnology in Agriculture: Implications for Farm-Level Risk Management

This study examines the risks associated with adoption of biotech crops and discusses their implications for risk […]