Building Agricultural Resilience to Natural Hazard-induced Disasters
Insights from Country Case Studies
Natural hazard-induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long-lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. With climate change set to amplify many of these impacts, a “business-as-usual” approach to disaster risk management in agriculture cannot continue if we are to meet the challenges of agricultural productivity and sustainability growth, and sustainable development. Drawing from seven case studies – Chile, Italy, Japan, Namibia, New Zealand, Turkey and the United States – this joint OECD-FAO report argues for a new approach to building resilience to NHID in agriculture. It explores the policy measures, governance arrangements, on-farm strategies and other initiatives that countries are using to increase agricultural resilience to NHID, highlighting emerging good practices. It offers concrete recommendations on what more needs to be done to shift from coping with the impacts of disasters, to an ex ante approach that focuses on preventing and mitigating the impacts of disasters, helping the sector be better prepared to respond to disasters, and to adapt and transform in order to be better positioned for future disasters.
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The case for building agricultural resilience
This chapter provides an overview of the increasing global trend in the occurrence of natural hazard-induced disasters, in particular the rise of weather- and climate-related hazards during the past decades. It describes the adverse impacts of these types of disasters on the agricultural sector, especially the crop and livestock subsectors, in developed and developing countries. It also outlines the key elements of the disaster risk management framework for agriculture, which include disaster risk governance, risk identification, assessment and awareness, prevention and mitigation, preparedness for response and recovery, emergency response, and recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Examples of agricultural activities are provided for each of these key elements.
Also available in: Italian
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