Event
13 May 2022

Against all odds. The winding path from multidimensional fragility to drought resilience in drylands

  • Date
    13 May 2022, 13:00pm
  • Organizer

    FAO

Fragile systems worldwide feature a combination of exposure to risks and insufficient coping capacity to mitigate, manage and absorb them. Restricted and unequal access to natural resources and their improper management, coupled with environmental constraints, are putting efforts for sustainable development at risk. Under these conditions, the capacity of the poorest to deal with global pressures on resources is undermined, and food security is threatened. It is estimated that around 2 billion people nowadays live their lives affected by fragility, and half of the world’s poor will live under fragile conditions by 2030. More than half the people seriously affected by disaster live in fragile states. The emerging consensus is that environmental factors and natural resource scarcity can be amongst the main drivers of fragility, as ecosystems with limited coping capacities are less resilient to stresses and shocks.

The objective of the event is to address the challenges of drought-prone drylands in fragile contexts. To explore the winding pathways from including drylands in the fragility context to building resilience, the event is built around the following milestones:

  • key features of drought-prone drylands: a global outlook;
  • integration of drought-prone drylands in the definition of multidimensional fragility: introduction of metrics;
  • drought resilience roadmap in drylands: the planning strategies to overcome fragility.

Access the Background and Agenda.