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Book (stand-alone)Geospatial applications in emergency impact assessment 2024
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No results found.The increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards including floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, dust storms and wildfires, as well as human-induced crises, including violence and conflicts, oil spills, dam failures, toxic wastes, industrial pollution, transport accidents, factory explosions, fires and chemical spills have devastating effects on food security and represent a substantial risk to sustainable agriculture and the livelihoods of people around the world. Thus, much attention has been given to reducing the likelihood of a hazard occurring as well as disaster risk, mitigating impacts and establishing early action and response, quickly and efficiently. -
ProjectDevelopment of an Enhanced Production and Risk Management in Agriculture Integrated Decision Support System (EPRIMA) - TCP/PHI/3604 2021
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No results found.The Philippines has the second highest exposure to natural hazards of any country in the world It lies in the typhoon belt through which storms generated in the western Pacific Ocean pass As an archipelago with low lying coasts, the country is particularly exposed to storm surges, tsunamis and rising sea levels, with recent trends indicating an increased frequency and intensity of impact of hydro meteorological hazards From 1995 to 2013 the agriculture and fisheries sector absorbed an average 27 percent of the economic impacts of natural hazards and disasters, with losses from disasters jumping to 37 percent in the period 2010 2013 At least 60 percent of the land area of the Philippines is exposed to multiple hazards, including typhoons, tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, forest fires and pandemics The country is also faced by agricultural and natural resource risks as a result of rapid urbanization, migration and socio economic changes The aim of the project was to increase resilience against multiple threats to the agriculture sector by facilitating the development of an Integrated Decision Support System for Enhanced Production and Risk Management in Agriculture This would allow key actors in DA to make more effective and timely decisions through more comprehensive and near real time access to crop production and risk and damage assessment information and tools The project would support three important dimensions of disaster risk reduction ( i e reducing existing risks, avoiding new risks and addressing underlying vulnerabilities. -
Book (stand-alone)Report of the FAO Asia-Pacific conference on early warning, prevention, preparedness and management of disasters in food and agriculture 2001
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No results found.This publication is a summary of the proceedings of the above conference, which was organized by FAO from 12 to 15 June, 2001 in Chiangmai, Thailand at the request of several regional countries. Nearly five million people are estimated to have been killed, injured, made homeless or otherwise seriously affected by natural disasters in the last 25 years in Asia. The recurring cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, forest fires and volcanic eruptions are a major reason for th e persisting hunger in the region, which is home to more than 500 million of the world's about 800 million underfed people. In recent years, man-made disasters such as civil strife, economic downturn and the plunder of natural resources have become equally worrisome causes of food insecurity.
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