Impakter
  • FINANCE
    • ESG News
    • Sustainable Finance
    • Business
  • TECH
    • Start-up
    • AI & Machine Learning
    • Green Tech
  • Environment
    • Biodiversity
    • Climate Change
    • Circular Economy
    • Energy
  • Industry News
    • Entertainment
    • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Health
    • Politics & Foreign Affairs
    • Philanthropy
    • Science
    • Sport
  • Editorial Series
    • SDGs Series
    • Shape Your Future
    • Sustainable Cities
      • Copenhagen
      • San Francisco
      • Seattle
      • Sydney
  • About us
    • Company
    • Team
    • Global Leaders
    • Partners
    • Write for Impakter
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
No Result
View All Result
  • FINANCE
    • ESG News
    • Sustainable Finance
    • Business
  • TECH
    • Start-up
    • AI & Machine Learning
    • Green Tech
  • Environment
    • Biodiversity
    • Climate Change
    • Circular Economy
    • Energy
  • Industry News
    • Entertainment
    • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Health
    • Politics & Foreign Affairs
    • Philanthropy
    • Science
    • Sport
  • Editorial Series
    • SDGs Series
    • Shape Your Future
    • Sustainable Cities
      • Copenhagen
      • San Francisco
      • Seattle
      • Sydney
  • About us
    • Company
    • Team
    • Global Leaders
    • Partners
    • Write for Impakter
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
No Result
View All Result
Impakter
No Result
View All Result
Home Environment Climate Change

How Disasters Impact Agriculture and Food Security

Disasters are affecting agrifood systems, compromising food security, and undermining the agriculture sector’s sustainability. A new FAO study argues that to build resilient agrifood systems, it is essential to understand interconnected and systemic risks and underlying disaster risk drivers

byInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
November 13, 2023
in Climate Change
disasters agriculture
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has published an assessment of how disasters, amplified by climate change, pandemics, epidemics, and armed conflict, are affecting agriculture and food security around the world. The report highlights the need for “urgent action… to prioritize the integration of multisectoral and multihazard disaster risk reduction strategies into agricultural policies and programmes.”

The flagship report is titled, “The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security: Avoiding and Reducing Losses Through Investment in Resilience.” It is part of global efforts to measure progress towards a more sustainable future, including the 2023 SDG Summit and the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, as well as the first Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 28) and the 2024 Summit of the Future.

The report defines disasters as “serious disruptions to the functioning of a community or society.” Having increased in severity and frequency, from 100 events per year in the 1970s to around 400 events per year in the past 20 years, disasters are affecting agrifood systems, compromising food security, and undermining the agriculture sector’s sustainability.

According to the study, over the last 30 years, disasters have resulted in a loss of an estimated USD 3.8 trillion worth of crops and livestock production. This corresponds to an average loss of USD 123 billion per year, or 5% of annual global agricultural gross domestic product (GDP).

Lower-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) have been affected the most, with losses ranging from 10-15% of their total agricultural GDP. Over the same time period, small island developing States (SIDS) have lost nearly 7% of their agricultural GDP.


Related Articles: How Does Climate Change Affect Agriculture? | Almost Half the World’s Population Lives in Households Linked to Agrifood Systems | How to Make Agriculture Carbon-neutral: Lessons from Denmark | Informed Farmers Are Successful Farmers | Why does sustainable agriculture remain a challenge?

The study argues that to build resilient agrifood systems, it is essential to understand interconnected and systemic risks and underlying disaster risk drivers.

“Proactive and timely interventions,” it notes, “can build resilience by preventing and reducing risks in agriculture,” as evidenced, for example, by anticipatory and preventive actions against the desert locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa in 2020-2021, which “demonstrated favourable benefit to cost ratios for investing in disaster prevention and resilience.”

The report identifies the need to:

  • improve data and information on the impacts of disasters in agriculture;
  • develop and mainstream multisectoral and multihazard disaster risk reduction (DRR) approaches into policy and decision making; and
  • invest in resilience to reduce disaster risk in agrifood systems.

The report was launched on 13 October 2023, in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

— —

This article was originally published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and is republished here as part of an editorial collaboration with the IISD. 


Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed here by the authors are their own, not those of Impakter.com — Featured Photo Credit: Freepik.

Tags: AgriculturedisastersFAOFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsFood securityUN FAO
Previous Post

Double Trouble for People and the Planet

Next Post

Heat Is on UAE to Deliver at COP28

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning, independent think tank championing research-driven solutions to the world's greatest challenges. Our vision is a balanced world where both people and the planet thrive; our mission is to accelerate the global transition to clean water, fair economies and a stable climate. With offices in Winnipeg, Geneva, Ottawa and Toronto, our work impacts lives in nearly 100 countries.

Related Posts

Yemen climate change
Climate Change

Yemen’s Climate Battle: Green Climate Fund Lays Groundwork Amid Conflict and Crisis

May 13, 2025
Climate Misinformation
Climate Change

Eight of the Top 10 Online Shows Are Spreading Climate Misinformation

May 9, 2025
climate action the 89% project
Climate Change

‘Spiral of Silence’: Climate Action Is Very Popular, so Why Don’t People Realise It?

April 25, 2025
Next Post
COP28 UAE

Heat Is on UAE to Deliver at COP28

Recent News

Trump Rattles Markets with Trade Threats on the EU and Apple

Trump Rattles Markets with Trade Threats on the EU and Apple

May 23, 2025
EU delays Basel III FRTB to 2027 while wrestling with sweeping CSDDD supply‑chain duties.

After the Basel Snooze: Europe’s Supply‑Chain Reckoning Ahead

May 23, 2025
ESG news regarding AI’s rapid datacentre power usage growth, new US tax bill risks job market, Meta’s 650MW energy purchase, Datamaran analysis of CSRD report

AI Growth Raises Concerns Over Datacentre Power Usage

May 23, 2025

Impakter informs you through the ESG news site and empowers your business CSRD compliance and ESG compliance with its Klimado SaaS ESG assessment tool marketplace that can be found on: www.klimado.com

Registered Office Address

Klimado GmbH
Niddastrasse 63,

60329, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


IMPAKTER is a Klimado GmbH website

Impakter is a publication that is identified by the following International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is the following 2515-9569 (Printed) and 2515-9577 (online – Website).


Office Hours - Monday to Friday

9.30am - 5.00pm CEST


Email

stories [at] impakter.com

By Audience

  • TECH
    • Start-up
    • AI & MACHINE LEARNING
    • Green Tech
  • ENVIRONMENT
    • Biodiversity
    • Energy
    • Circular Economy
    • Climate Change
  • INDUSTRY NEWS
    • Entertainment
    • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Health
    • Politics & Foreign Affairs
    • Philanthropy
    • Science
    • Sport
    • Editorial Series

ESG/Finance Daily

  • ESG News
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Business

Klimado Platform

  • Klimado ESG Tool
  • Impakter News

About Us

  • Team
  • Global Leaders
  • Partners
  • Write for Impakter
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© 2025 IMPAKTER. All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • FINANCE
    • ESG News
    • Sustainable Finance
    • Business
  • TECH
    • Start-up
    • AI & Machine Learning
    • Green Tech
  • Environment
    • Biodiversity
    • Climate Change
    • Circular Economy
    • Energy
  • Industry News
    • Entertainment
    • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Health
    • Politics & Foreign Affairs
    • Philanthropy
    • Science
    • Sport
  • Editorial Series
    • SDGs Series
    • Shape Your Future
    • Sustainable Cities
      • Copenhagen
      • San Francisco
      • Seattle
      • Sydney
  • About us
    • Company
    • Team
    • Global Leaders
    • Partners
    • Write for Impakter
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy

© 2024 IMPAKTER. All rights reserved.