Environment and Energy

Drought and Food Security

The Drylands Development Centre, the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction are supporting the African Drought Risk and Development Network, known in its short name as the Drought Forum. The Drought forum aims to promote the development of coordinated strategies for enhanced and effective drought management at national level.  It was developed in response to the demand from drought risk management practitioners (NGOs, international agencies, government representatives, practitioners, etc.), as expressed at the Africa Drought Risk and Development Policy Forum in February 2005. This joint initiative has created a platform that will assist practitioners to address issues related to drought risk and its implications for development. It will do so by providing critical and often hard-to-find resources, all in one place.

More on Drought

• African drought risk & development network
• 2005 Workshop on Drought Risk & Development Policy in Africa
• 2006 Workshop on Drought Risk & Development Policy in Africa
• 2008 Workshop on Drought Risk & Development Policy in Africa

UNCSD

The United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD 17) 4-15 May 2009 session addressed the thematic issues of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification in Africa.  UNDP-DDC, together with UNEP, have produced joint papers on mitigation and adaptation options to climate change in the drylands of africa, available here

• Climate Change in African Drylands: Adaptive Livelihood Options
  1) Brief 2) Discussion Paper
• Carbon in the Drylands: Desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance 1) Brief 2) Discussion Paper