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The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… Its winds reached more than 300 km per hour, the strongest wind speed ever recorded in the country during a cyclone … disasters: à Meteorological events (cyclones, tornadoes, wind-, snow-, hail-, dust-, sand- and thunderstorms, etc.) … the effects of tsunamis and storm waves. By absorbing wave energy and stabilizing sand dunes and other elevated wave …
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world economy by … 2008). Drought, sand storm and fire regulation Wildfires, wind erosion, severe drought are expected to increase … as a result of climate change-induced weather changes. Wind erosion causes severe loss of topsoil, estimated at 161 …