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The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023
Disasters are resulting in unprecedented levels of destruction across the world. These shocks and disruptions affect the functioning and sustainability of agricultural production and threaten the livelihoods of millions of people reliant on agrifood systems. Reducing the impact of disasters in agriculture requires a better understanding of the extent to which these events produce negative impacts in agriculture and necessitates an investigation into the underlying risks that make agriculture vulnerable to the effects of disasters. The FAO flagship report on ‘The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security’ provides a timely and comprehensive overview of how disasters are affecti...
Enhancing Mobility in Later Life
Outdoor mobility in old age is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a basic human need and means the physical ability to move. On the other, it means the realization of all types of trips out-of-doors, either by foot or by means of transportation. In addition, societal and individual necessities, modern values and economic interests mutually reinforcing each other have resulted in mobility as an ever more important precondition of ensuring the ability to lead an autonomous life and participate actively in society according to one's individual needs. Mobility also promotes healthy ageing, delays the onset of disabilities, and postpones frailty, thereby contributing to subjective well-...
Sand and dust storms
Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in drylands with dust often transported over great distances, frequently across international boundaries. Such storms are important for ecosystem functioning, but they also create numerous hazards to society, in agriculture and other socioeconomic sectors. The yields and productivity of crops, trees, pastures and livestock are adversely affected by SDS. With climate change it is expected that droughts and land use changes will increase the frequency and risk of SDS.While agriculture is a major driver of SDS, agriculture is impacted by SDS and it is also part of the solution to combat SDS risks and mitigate their impacts. This guide aims to provide an ove...
Governing Disasters
Drawing on international, state and private sector case studies and a global survey, this book examines local engagement in disaster relief.
ADDRESSING AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES IN NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLANS
The Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans – Supplementary guidelines (NAP–Ag Guidelines) provide specific guidance for national adaptation planning in the agricultural sectors. They are intended to be used by national planners and decision–makers working on climate change issues in developing countries and authorities and experts within the agriculture sectors who are contributing to climate change adaptation and NAP formulation and implementation.
Towards an Intelligent State
Explores the role that the State can play in relation to new social challenges. Includes discussions of community participation in development, the role of social and cultural capital in the development process and approaches to efficient social management. Suggests a move away from an omnipotent or minimal State towards a more integral one. Highlights the role the State can play in overcoming inequities and analyses the specific case of Latin America.
Governance challenges for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation convergence in agriculture - Guidance for analysis
This discussion paper aims to help practitioners work in a more informed and politically sensitive way to integrate actions on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in agriculture. It illustrates some typical governance and political economy-related barriers that may hamper convergence or integration of DRR and CCA actions. It also provides guidance for in-depth governance analysis, putting the analytical focus at national and subnational levels, while considering the international context as an important factor for convergence. The FAO Governance and Policy Support Discussion Paper series provides perspectives and concepts on critical governance and policy issues that are relevant to FAO work at country, regional and global levels. Discussion Papers are often based on work in progress, and we welcome suggestions and ideas by email at: [email protected]. The series is available at: http://www.fao.org/policy-support/resources/
2023年灾害对农业和粮食安全的影响
灾害正在全世界造成前所未有的破坏，冲击和干扰农业生产的运作和可持续性，导致千千万万依赖农业粮食体系的民众生计面临威胁。要减少灾害的破坏力，我们需要进一步了解灾害对农业的负面影响，并深入研究使农业易受灾害影响的潜在风险。 本报告评估了过去30年来灾害给农业生产造成的损失，并深入探讨影响种植业、畜牧业、林业、渔业及水产养殖业等各细分部门的各种威胁和风险。社会和环境条件所导致的深层次因素和脆弱性进一步放大了灾害的影响，如气候变化、全球或地方流行病、冲突等，引发灾难性后果，并通过连锁效应波及整个农业粮食体系。面对这些挑战，我们需要开发新的减灾方法和应对机制。报告提供了诸多案例，展示如何通过制定战略和采取具体行动，通过投资提高韧性，积极主动地应对农业风险。报告还介绍了将减灾工作融入农业实践和政策的方法，并呼吁深入了解实际情况，因地制宜地实施这些解决方案。
The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age
The main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three cha...
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture underpins the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people – most of them in low-income developing countries – and remains a key driver of development. At no other point in history has agriculture been faced with such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks, interacting in a hyperconnected world and a precipitously changing landscape. And agriculture continues to absorb a disproportionate share of the damage and loss wrought by disasters. Their growing frequency and intensity, along with the systemic nature of risk, are upending people’s lives, devastating livelihoods, and jeopardizing our entire food system. This report makes a powerful case for investing in resilience and disaster risk reduction – especially data gathering and analysis for evidence informed action – to ensure agriculture’s crucial role in achieving the future we want.
