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Emergency and Early Recovery Support to Floods-Affected Farming Households in Western Terai, Nepal - TCP/NEP/3809

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 8

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Nepal is highly vulnerable to climate change, hydrometeorological hazards and extreme events such as storms, floods, landslides and debris flow, and soil erosion. These hazards often affect the food and nutritional security of vulnerable households (HHs) as well as their livelihoods, with women and children representing the most affected population. Unseasonal incessant rainfall between 21 and 24 October 2021 triggered landslides in the hills, and flooding and inundation mostly in Western and Eastern Terai region and parts of Karnali. These constitute the main paddy pocket area in Nepal - the country’s food basket. Substantial damage was caused in the agriculture sector, in both cropland and paddy crops, which were at the harvesting stage. This further increased the vulnerability of the Terai communities in the most severely flood-hit districts. The Government of Nepal, including local government units, carried out an assessment of agricultural losses and damage in the affected areas. The conclusion was an urgent need to provide immediate agricultural recovery support to the impacted populations in order to protect their food and nutrition security, and livelihoods. In response to this need, in partnership with MoALD and the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoLMAC), Sudurpaschim Province, and in close coordination with the affected and vulnerable municipalities and communities, FAO prepared agricultural recovery packages to assist the affected population to recuperate from the shocks and to resume its disrupted agricultural practices.

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