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Water-related Disasters

• How satellite technology can help stop climate hazards from becoming health disasters 

• Typhoon Noru demonstrated the value of space tech at meeting of disaster-risk experts

• After Unprecedented Heatwaves,  Monsoon Rains and the Worst Floods in Over a Century Devastate South Asia 

• What Chennai (and India) must do to prevent urban flooding 

• With COP26 around the corner, explore how a proactive approach to drought management could help Southern Africa 

• International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2021 

• Why subseasonal weather forecasts are key to avoiding crop losses from droughts and floods 

• How a new framework can provide flood insurance guidance to millions of farmers 

• Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2023: Nurturing local champions of change to fight inequality and build systemic resilience

• Helping communities help themselves: early warning systems help save lives

Water, Agriculture and Food Security

• A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change [The Economist]

• Food security: How to deal with effects of climate change on Indian agriculture [Economic Times]

• India has storms to weather to secure its food systems

• India downplays wheat export worries as heat waves threaten yields 

• Addressing challenges in food systems with climate-smart agriculture 

• IWMI’s priority is an assessment of water for food at sub-national and river basin level 

• Delayed monsoon jeopardises India’s economic revival 

Climate Adaptation and Resilience

• CGIAR's ClimBeR Initiative launches with partners in six countries

• PhilSA and International Water Management Institute hold climate policy workshop

• India Needs To Focus On Climate-Smart Agriculture 

• Hi-tech solutions to help farmers combat climate crisis 

• Farming for the future: How climate-smart agriculture can protect Sri Lanka’s smallholders 

• Over 200 agribusiness representatives join CCC and Australia’s MDF to discuss climate change 

• Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and MDF kick off Climate Change Adaptation for Agribusinesses series 

• Climate insurance solutions workshop held for industry professionals in Sri Lanka 

• Farmers get ‘bundled solutions’ to fight weather vagaries 

• Hi-tech support helps Sri Lanka’s farmers navigate the climate crisis 

• Bundled agricultural insurance solutions climatarians gambit  

• IWMI launches high-tech drought monitoring system for Zambia

Digital Innovation

• IWMI launches the South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS) 

• More nations can be better prepared for drought as IWMI takes its space-based monitoring tool online 

• Explore IWMI’s journey using Earth Engine for climate crisis and food security in South Asia 

• South Asian and African countries use data from space to act fast on drought 

• How a high-tech approach to drought management can help halt desertification and achieve global goals 

• Smart farming platform ‘GeoGoviya’ launched in Sri Lanka 

• AWARE Platform to strengthen anticipatory action mechanism for disaster mitigation responses 

• Climate Smart Governance Dashboard, a facilitation planning tool for strengthening national adaptation strategies and climate investment planning

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