Monthly Archives: February 2012

by Jan Cees Venema

World Water Day 2012 – Water and Food Security – 22nd March 2012

Why is water a key to food security?

Food security exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

People who have better access to water tend to have lower levels of undernourishment. The lack of water can be a major cause of famine and undernourishment, in particular in areas where people depend on local agriculture for food and income.

Erratic rainfall and seasonal differences in water availability can cause temporary food shortages. Floods and droughts can cause some of the most intensive food emergencies.

Read more>>  World Water Day 2012 – Water and Food Security – 22nd March 2012.

by Jan Cees Venema

GFDRR | Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

Established in 2006, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a partnership of 39 countries and 8 international organizations committed to helping developing countries reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and adapt to climate change. The partnership’s mission is to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in country development strategies by supporting a country-led and managed implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). GFDRR’s Partnership Charter, revised in April 2010, sets its original mission, rationale, and governance structure.

GFDRR has three main business lines to achieve its development objectives at the global, regional and country levels.

 

Seven initiatives that complement the three tracks and Climate Change Adapation (CCA) programs are:

Please click here to visit the GFDRR website.

by Jan Cees Venema

NEW! UNSDI-NCOs News blog

We revamped the News section of the website, such as to allow for you to share your thoughts with us, or just to comment on the news items. This News blog is based on the WordPress platform.

If you have any news items relating to SDI or geo-information developments you would like to share with us, please let us know.

Contact details can be found at http://www.unsdi.nl/contact-us.html

by Jan Cees Venema

The UNSDI Daily

We follow a wide variety of organizations on Twitter, which are dealing with sustainability and development issues, realization of the MDGs or related or supporting activities. This in order to be able to determine global geo-information, SDI, capacity building and institutional strengthening needs.

All Tweets of the organisations we follow from the past 24 hours are forming the content of this daily paper. So no need anymore to scroll through the Tweets, just read this paper.

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