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A report on CARE Netherland's work in Tanzania, teaching farmers new farming techniques to cultivate their land, without harming the environment, and to avoid disasters such as landslides, one of the consequencees of deforestation...

Giang works in the Green Team – a team young people dedicated to make the newly planted mangrove trees survive. Without the mangrove, her village is very vulnerable to the typhoons that are predicted to increase in strength with climate change...

The Prime Minister of Vietnam has recently approved a project to boost public awareness and improve community based disaster risk management to better prepare for disasters. The project will take place over a 12 year period from 2009 to 2020...

More than sixty families from the coastal barangay of Punta Tarawal in Calabanga, Philippines took part in a simulation exercise of an actual evacuation of the high-risk barangay, at the Union Elementary School last Sunday...

'This new model not only details the current scarcity of groundwater, but also provides a scientific tool to help water managers remedy the situation in the future' said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, 'Science can be invaluable in helping to provide solutions'...

IPCC is looking for disaster risk reduction experts to be lead authors and review editors. Nominations must be made by national IPCC focal points by 27 July 2009. Disaster risk reduction experts may have broad, conceptual knowledge of disaster risk

The Japan Times writes on a recent report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Japan which reveals that more than 7,300 public school buildings in Japan face a high risk of collapse in a serious earthquake...

Un point de vu, publié dans le journal L'Humanité, questionnant le rôle de l'assurance dans la réduction des risques liés aux catastrophes et comme outil d’adaptation au monde de demain...

The Namibian news agency the New Era highlights the need for Namibia to mainstream disaster risk management in its national development plans if the country is to minimize reverse effects that disasters such as floods have on efforts to achieve Vision 2030...

In a recent statement, Mohammed Audu-Bida, director of NEMA, Nigeria, advised stakeholders to engage the media and community leaders on potentials hazards posed by climate change by activating early warning and forecasts to reduce the impact of disasters...