Food security and agriculture

This working paper identifies the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor in India and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation. The author follows the principles of the ‘bottom-up’

In the 1980s a group of farmers in the West African country of Burkina Faso decided to fight back against years of drought by resuscitating their barren rock-hard land to grow more food than only what they needed to survive...

It is now time to understand and take precautions to minimize the impacts of disasters instead of providing relief once the disasters have hit says Sri Lanka's Ministry of Disaster Management in preparation for the national symposium this week...

This report presents the proceedings of a workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 to 30 June 2006. This follow-up workshop, to the initial meeting in March/April 2005, where various approaches to the rehabilitation of affected agricultural lands were discussed and proposed and a Regional Strategic Framework was formulated, had as its focus: a review of progress to date with the objective of identifying gaps that may have arisen; an assessment of long-term strategic plans for each of the countries, moving from an initial emergency response phase to structured long-term plans for the rehabilitation of the agricultural sector; and development of coordination strategies and linkages for current and future interventions.

'We must start research, adaptation investments and policy reform now, if we are to feed the world sustainably and reduce poverty in future', says Gerald C. Nelson, a Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI...

Henry David Venema, IISD's Director of Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Water Innovation Centre looks at what lessons Manitoba's 2009 Red River flood offers and discusses how building resilience to future floods requires that we make a

Scientists, sociologists, environmentalists, and representatives of international organisations explored measures to ensure sustainable development of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta at a meeting held in Can Tho, in early June...

Livestock could be critical to survival of African agriculture as hotter weather and rainfall patterns shift, says new study. Adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the Global Platform...