This study examines the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in
agriculture, and the extent to which those studies have addressed the impacts of, and …

Climate change severely affects sub-Saharan African economies in several ways: increased
temperatures, erratic rainfall variability patterns, and recurrent droughts and floods. Such …

This year's report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in
its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only …

Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists,
particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the …

Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such
as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters
on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam, and subsequently examines …

In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger
and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 …

With the develo** world increasingly exposed to severe shocks and stresses, a growing
number of international development agencies have now adopted resilience building as a …

Significant attention has focused on the possibility that climate change will displace large
populations in the develo** world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate …

Much has been written on the determinants of technology adoption in agriculture, with
issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability …