Resources Tagged: Risk Assessment

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  1. Mercy Corps - Disaster Risk Reduction

    DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)is the systematic development and application of policies, strategies and practices that minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society. Mercy Corps believes that DRR is an essential part of our mission to help people build...
    Risk Reduction Risk Management Risk Assessment

  2. Climate change and food security. What are the risks and how can we prepare?

    2017-11-15
    Climate Change Food Security Risk Assessment Risk Management Resilience

  3. FARM-D - Understanding Risks

    A risk affecting agriculture is the possibility of occurrence of an event that has adverse effects on both individual farmers and the overall performance of the agricultural sector in a region or area. Reduction of the negative consequences of risks is often possible and always desirable. Farmers...
    Risk Risk Assessment

  4. PARM - Agriculture Risk Management in Developing Countries: A Learning Course for Practitioners

    PARM’s mandate is to strengthen agricultural risk management through knowledge sharing and capacity building activities to improve the human capital of all the stakeholders that can contribute to a better agricultural risk management system, in particular, vulnerable rural households. In order to...
    Risk Reduction Risk Risk Assessment Risk Management

  5. Tearfund Learn - Disasters

    Disasters are a growing threat, affecting more people and doing more damage than ever before. Their impact is especially devastating in countries with high levels of material poverty; the Least Developed Countries accounted for 40 per cent of all deaths from natural hazards between 2000 and 2010,...
    Disaster Mitigation Risk Assessment

  6. Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics

    2021-01-01 Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation...
    Downloads Open Access Books MDPI Sustainable Develo... Rural areas Rural Tropics Risk Assessment Risk Reduction Risk Management

  7. Technical Guidelines on Rapid Risk Assessment for Animal Health Threats

    The occurrence and spread of an animal health threat can be prevented when a timely assessment of the risk is carried out to inform prevention, response and control measures. These technical guidelines on rapid risk assessment (RRA) are designed as a simple and practical tool to be used by...
    Downloads FAO Animal Disease Pre... Animal Health Risk Assessment

  8. 2nd Edition of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM)

    2021-01-01 *Available as Download Only Disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods, heat waves, nuclear accidents, and large-scale pollution incidents take lives and incur major health problems. The majority of large-scale disasters affect the most vulnerable populations, which often comprise extreme...
    Risk Assessment Risk Management Emergency Management Downloads Open Access Books MDPI