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Plan of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture 2014-2018

Year of publication 2013

Pages 54 p.

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Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Agriculture is one of the most disaster affected sectors. Agricultural production and livelihoods, particularly of the majority of smallholder farmers in Cambodia are recurrently affected by a variety of natural hazards. Smallholder farmers in Cambodia are particularly vulnerable to natural hazard impacts since (i) their hazard exposure is high (ii) the common pattern that there is only one rice crop per year, most often planted under rain fed conditions, and (iii) the fact that the per hectare agricultural production, particularly of rice, is significantly lower than in other South East Asian countries. The high hazard exposure coupled with low production levels threatens livelihood security of thousands of smallholder farmers in the country, particularly during and after the emergency period.

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