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Research Project: Experimentally Assessing and Modeling the Impact of Climate and Management on the Resiliency of Crop-Weed-Soil Agro-Ecosystems

Location: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory

Title: Introduction: Distributional effects of disasters and climate change – economic and food security implications

Author
item ANBHUMOZHI, VENKATACHALAM - Economic Research Institute For Asean And Asia
item BREILING, MEINHARD - University Of Austria
item Reddy, Vangimalla

Submitted to: Distributional Effects of Disasters and Climate Change on Food Security in ASEAN
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/1/2019
Publication Date: 12/27/2019
Citation: Anbhumozhi, V., Breiling, M., Reddy, V. 2019. Introduction: Distributional effects of disasters and climate change – economic and food security implications. In: Anbhumozhi, V., Breiling, M., Reddy, V., editors. Towards a Resilient ASEAN Volume 1: Disasters, Climate Change, and Food Security: Supporting ASEAN Resilience. Jakarta, Indonesia: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. p. 1-14.

Interpretive Summary: None

Technical Abstract: Natural disasters and climate change have global impacts in terms of both causes and effects. These impacts are not distributed evenly across countries and sectors in the region, however, but can create dissimilar effects across different latitudes and altitudes affecting food security. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) blueprint 2025 and East Asia Summit (EAS) statement clearly recognize the need for concerted efforts to address the issue of disasters and climate change and their impacts on socio-economic development, health, and food security. Ensuring adequate access to food at all times for all ASEAN people is also identified as a priority agenda for the implementation of the ASCC blueprint. In this book, the opportunities to build a resilient future through the implementation of both the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, 2015– 2030 are highlighted. Important issues that become relevant at the global, regional, national, and subnational levels in terms of the expected effects of disasters and climate change, and how adaptation roadmaps may help reduce vulnerability to food security in the ASEAN region have conversed. Authors also discussed different ways for people and nations to deal with extreme weather events and climate variability to attain food security.