{"id":15039,"date":"2016-01-25T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=15039"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:01:41","slug":"fao-helps-pakistan-cope-with-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/01\/fao-helps-pakistan-cope-with-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO helps Pakistan cope with natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fullstory\">\n<p>With Pakistan suffering a multitude of natural disasters each year, including floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and avalanches, a United Nations development agency is teaming up with State and provincial authorities to shore up the country&#8217;s agriculture, among the sectors most affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis assessment is a key tool to further develop the capacity of the agriculture sector institutions to mainstream the disaster risk management, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction, in their planning and action\u201d Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/\">FAO<\/a>) Deputy Representative in Pakistan Francisco Gamarro said of a recently finalized study on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>With a 21 percent share of the national gross domestic product (GDP) and a 45 percent share of Pakistan&#8217;s total workforce, it is crucial that agriculture be able to prevent and mitigate the impact of disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The FAO, together with national, provincial, and regional level disaster management authorities and civil society organizations last week finalized the Institutional Assessment on integrating disaster risk management into Pakistan&#8217;s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified areas and measures that need to be strengthened in a series of workshops with key stakeholders across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Among the goals of the FAO, which seeks to achieve food security for all, is the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, including land, water, air and climate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=53080#.VqY-HfkrLcs\" target=\"_blank\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ development agency is teaming up with state and provincial authorities to shore up the country&#8217;s agriculture, among the sectors most affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[357,285,613,4061],"class_list":["post-15039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zero-hunger","category-news","tag-fao","tag-food-security","tag-natural-disasters","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}