Mainstreaming climate risk management into FAO programming
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The agricultural sectors are vulnerable to natural hazards and disasters. The negative impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on agriculture and food security are expected to be wide-reaching and cross-sectoral. They threaten food security and nutrition severely impacting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, almost 80 percent of whom live in rural areas. The effect of climate change on agricultural value chains result in additional risks to the food security and nutrition of people who are directly dependent on them for their food and livelihoods. Climate change risks cascade from the impacts on agro-ecosystems to economic and social development and food security and nutrition at large.
A key element required for a sustainable and transformative development in agriculture is ensuring that investments are informed and designed in line with robust evidence about both past and future climate risks. FAO’s Climate Risks team has developed a climate risk screening system for agriculture investment projects. The mainstreaming of climate considerations into agricultural investment projects mean that climate change must be taken into consideration at every stage of the project cycle. The screening and assessment of climate risks at the earliest stages of a project design supports decision-making related to the project, including the location, identification of climate change hot-spots, the vulnerability of agricultural systems, targeted communities, and proposed project interventions to increase resilience.