The impact of droughts and floods on food security and policy options to alleviate negative effects

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Recent precipitation trends, flash floods and landslides in southern Brazil (2016, background): “Hydrological hazards such as flash floods, droughts, and landslides cause significant losses to the agriculture and hinder economic development throughout the world (e.g. Devereux 2007, Middleton and Sternberg 2013).”
Local level climate justice? Adaptation finance and vulnerability reduction (2013, background): “Malawi has a history of flooding, drought, land degradation, poverty and food insecurity (Devereux, 2007; Davies et al., 2010; Mijoni and Izadkhah, 2009; Phiri and Saka, 2008).”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “Food insecurity results from complex interactions of multiple stressors (socioeconomic and environmental) over long time periods and with sudden shocks (Swift 1989; Misselhorn 2005; Devereux 2007; Akrofi et al. 2012).”