23 Sep 2015
Crowdsourcing integrated with crisis maps has been a powerful tool in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Future crowdsourcing applications must provide capabilities to better manage unstructured messages and enhance streaming data. Enhancem...
Tags: Awareness material, Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Social Media in Disasters
09 May 2017
Managing urban areas is one of the major development challenges of the 21st century. While the increasing attention to the urban food insecure is evident, effective information gathering guiding humanitarian response and targeting remain a challenge ...
Tags: Report, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment, Urban Preparedness
12 Jul 2018
In 2015 FAO issued its first report on The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security, exploring the negative effects of naturally-induced and climate-related disasters ona agriculture. Against the backdrop of increasingly pressing challeng...
Tags: Report, Business Preparedness