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Book (stand-alone)Nepal: Flood impact assessment
DIEM-Impact report, November 2024
2025Also available in:
No results found.The rainfall on 26 and 27 September 2024 was identified as the heaviest ever recorded in Nepal's history. As at 5 October 2024, more than 5 300 households (approximately 26 500 people) had been affected across the districts of Kavre Palanchowk, Lalitpur, Makwanpur, Panchthar, Ramechhhap and Sindhuli. As at 16 October 2024, the death toll had reached 250 and more than 17 000 people had been rescued through rescue operations deploying more than 30 000 security personnel. The Government of Nepal declared 71 municipalities across 20 districts as disaster crisis or emergency zones due to the severe impact of landslides and floods. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Data in Emergencies (DIEM) conducted a DIEM-Impact assessment to understand the impact of the floods on the affected population, infrastructure and essential services from 17 to 24 November 2024. FAO established DIEM-Impact to provide a granular and rapid understanding of the impact of large-scale hazards on agriculture and agricultural livelihoods using a variety of assessment methodologies, including primary and secondary information, remote sensing technologies, and FAO’s damage and loss methodology. DIEM-Impact presents a regularly updated and accessible state of food insecurity in fragile environments, and helps underpin FAO's programming based on evidence. -
BookletA geospatial assessment of the impact of flood in support to the restoration of irrigation schemes in Malawi 2022
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No results found.In early 2022, the Southern and Central provinces of Malawi have been impacted by various extreme events such as tropical Storm Ana in January followed by tropical cyclone Gombe in March. The strong winds and flooding including flash flood events caused severe damages to crops and irrigation infrastructures. Irrigation infrastructures play an important role in providing food and livelihood to a large part of the population as agriculture sector in Malawi employs 76.36 percent of the total population. On the other hand extreme weather events are becoming more frequent in Malawi and appraisal of the damages is difficult with limited information. In this context, the Geospatial unit at the Land and Water Division (NSL) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in close collaboration with the country office and Irrigation Department provided technical assistance to the Government of Malawi to assess the impact of flood using innovative geospatial technologies in support to the restoration of irrigation schemes. The majority of the large-scale irrigation infrastructure of the country is located in the south of the country, mainly in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts. -
Book (stand-alone)Loss and damage and agrifood systems
Addressing gaps and challenges
2023Also available in:
No results found.Agrifood systems are intrinsically linked to climate change and are particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Each year hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of crops and livestock production is lost due to disaster events, undermining hard-won development gains and livelihoods for farmers. At the same time, agrifood systems are substantial contributors of emissions. As such, agrifood systems must play a central role in providing solutions for climate change – both adaptation and mitigation – while meeting the food security needs of present and future generations. The communities that support and depend on agrifood systems are on the front line of loss and damage associated with climate change. Loss and damage can generally be described as the negative impact of climate change that occurs despite mitigation and adaptation efforts. Addressing loss and damage in the agrifood system is crucial, given its importance for livelihoods and sustainable development. Taking collective action is essential to tackle loss and damage in agrifood systems to ensure that the livelihoods of the most vulnerable communities are adequately protected and food security needs are met. The purpose of this report is to stimulate discussions on the central role of agrifood systems in the loss and damage debate and identify the gaps in data, knowledge and finance that need to be addressed. The report provides an overview of the loss and damage concept, the status of analytical methodologies and tools, a summary of the reporting on loss and damage in nationally determined contributions (NDCs), an outline of the policy needs and some preliminary analysis of the financing needs. Overall, support to countries needs to be targeted and strengthened so that loss and damage in agrifood systems can be dealt with as early as possible. This support needs to ensure that no one is left behind while striving for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life.
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