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Highlights: Jointly prepared by the World Bank, the World Food Programme of the United Nations (WFP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report examines how...

Highlights: Poverty, population growth, and rain-fed farming heighten climate change vulnerability in rural households. As a climate risk management strategy, households adopt climate-smart agriculture...

This report presents the main outcomes of the PARM engagement in Ethiopia, including capacity building and knowledge sharing workshops in agricultural risk management. It also provides an executive...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots...

This paper examines the effects of shocks on temporal stability of risk and time preferences of rural households within a developing country context characterized by frequent droughts, chronic food...

Highlights: Chapter 3.7 focuses on making agriculture more productive and resilient. The modelling shows that climate change impacts on crop yield will vary by crop and region...

Highlights: War and violent conflicts are often factors in the current food crisis. East Africa were living in a crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or higher)...

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is WFP’s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource...

Highlights: We use a risk governance lens to study food system risks during the pandemic. Food system actors and risks were often not part...

This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It...