Abstract: Climate change can lead to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and timing of weather extremes, which pose disaster risks to exposed and vulnerable communities. Capacity development is a common disaster risk reduction (DRR) action and a climate change adaptation. There is a knowledge gap on what is involved in and what…
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Among G20 economies, South Africa and Australia top the rankings of fragile Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Index. The well-known impact of water scarcity is a driver for these countries, alongside factors such as coastal protection and pollination. The full article can be found here: www.swissre.com/media/news-releases/nr-20200923-biodiversity-and-ecosystems-services.html Table 1: G20 rankings for Swiss Re Institute BES. We…
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South Africa has been in lockdown since late March and we have started to see the impacts in many of the areas where AWARD has been working for over 18 years including the rural areas of the Mametja-Oaks area and surrounds in Limpopo Province. The lockdown in South Africa has been very strict and cut…
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AWARD is approaching closure of the USAID:RESILIM O programme this month. As a celebration of this milestone, it will be releasing for distribution of the RESOURCE PACK. These documents can be obtained here by clicking on RESOURCES.
Read MoreSince the 1996 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome, civil society organisations (CSOs) supporting food sovereignty have created alliances across movements and initiated dialogues with governments and institutions to influence shifts in policy. This inclusive participatory process has involved, “thousands of representatives of small-scale food producers and…
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