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Climate Diplomacy PodcastAnticipating risk: applying foresight to tackle disaster-induced food insecurityBeyond its reactive role as a humanitarian agency, the World Food Programme (WFP) looks increasingly to preventative and anticipatory measures to hinder and reduce the impacts of climate-related disaster. Gernot Laganda, Chief of Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction at the WFP, brings some lessons from the field, suggest strategies to increase the resilience of food systems, and lets funding partners what they can do to support integration across programmes.© adelphi research, all rights reserved adelphi research (https://adelphi-research.de/en) is a non-profit independent think tank for environmental and development policy research and analysis. Our...
2022-09-0633 min
Climate Front LinesClimate Change Was Already Causing Hunger to Spike. Then Russia Invaded Ukraine.The war in Ukraine is causing shortages in the global food supply. Climate change was already creating widespread food insecurity before Russia invaded Ukraine, and the number of people facing famine or a food crisis globally is growing faster than any other time in the 21st century. Gernot Laganda, director of the Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Service at the World Food Program, explains how it’s all connected in this episode of Climate Front Lines.
2022-06-1024 min
Inside GenevaCOP26: Why the climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisisSend us a textThe increase in extreme weather events worldwide is evidence that climate change is already impacting our lives. The hardest hit of the global population are people in developing countries. Host Imogen Foulkes puts the spotlight in this episode on what humanitarian agencies are expecting from leaders at COP26, the UN Climate Change conference taking place in Glasgow. "Ninety per cent of the world's refugees originate from countries that are on the front lines of the climate emergency. There is a linkage," says Andrew Harper, special adviser on climate action with the U...
2021-11-0230 min
The Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program2016 World Fellow Gernot LagandaGernot Laganda reflects on how international organizations address aid, development, and climate change.
2016-12-0616 min