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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13042114/00001
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- Summary:
- This document discusses the relationship between the rise in frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters and increasing global food insecurity, summarizing findings from a workshop on building resilience to these risks by integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies into efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. Natural disasters, particularly weather-related events associated with climate change, are increasingly impacting all components of food security. Such disasters affect availability either by disrupting the ability of households to economically or physically access food, or by causing supply shortages as a result of the destruction of agricultural lands or disruptions in food distribution processes. As weather becomes increasingly more volatile, the negative affects on hunger and nutrition may produce broader and more complex humanitarian crises similar to those witnessed in the Horn of Africa and Pakistan over the past year or so. Addressing this growing threat will require solutions at the nexus between food security, CCA, and DRR. The document identifies building community resilience as that meeting point. It highlights 10 case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, providing a project overview, main objectives, an outline of challenges experienced, and relevance to resilience building for each individual case. In Ethiopia, efforts to combat the confluence of low soil fertility, land degradation, and drought focus on promoting natural resource management and cultivating alternative livelihoods such as beekeeping and poultry production. A holistic watershed management approach adopted in Afghanistan emphasizes the construction of protective infrastructure and disaster preparedness to deal with flash flood risks, and sustainable land management to combat overgrazing and shrub uprooting. To manage decreasing precipitation in Peru, the project has focused on developing low water demanding varieties of crops, water harvesting, and increasing dairy and meat production for consumption and income generation. Other cases from Niger, Ecuador, Egypt, Bolivia, Bangladesh, and Uganda are discussed. A central message echoed throughout this publication is the importance of sustainable livelihoods. These are income-generating activities that do not degrade and deplete vital natural resources, thus causing the conditions for disaster, and are either impervious to climate and disaster-related shocks, or can recover rapidly when faced with them. ( English,English )
- Subject:
- Disasters and Resilience
- Citation/Reference:
- (2011). Building resilience: bridging food security, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. World Food Programme (WFP), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
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