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Book (stand-alone)Status of Disaster Risk Management. Plans for Floods, Hurricanes and Drought in the Agriculture Sector. A Caribbean Perspective 2013
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No results found.This document presents the findings of a comparative study which was conducted in 2012, of disaster risk management (DRM) plans in the Caribbean, with focus on the agriculture sector. The study includes the following Caribbean countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad an d Tobago and Turks and Caicos. The document includes specific recommendations related to the development of Agriculture DRM plans (ADRM) within various Ministries of Agriculture throughout the region, the scaling up of awareness raising and education programmes that target all stakeholders, the identification of a regional institution to monitor and hold countries accountable to develop and implement plans within an agreed timeframe and the establishment of a forum to share best practices and in novative technologies for ADRM plans in order to further strengthen the technical capacities within the Ministries of Agriculture (MoAs). -
BookletSimulating anticipatory action for floods in Nepal
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No results found.With its high vulnerability to climate change and diverse landscape, Nepal is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Floods are a particularly serious concern in the low-lying Terai region, which experiences annual flooding during the monsoon season after periods of incessant rainfall. This flooding inundates croplands, significantly threatening livelihoods and national food security, as the Terai region is known as the country's food baseket. In 2024, severe flooding in Nepal’s Koshi River Basin triggered the Anticipatory Action (AA) Framework for floods under the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). Within this framework, FAO supported the agriculture sector by disseminating tailored early warning messages and distributing hermetic storage bags to vulnerable households. Building on lessons from that activation, FAO organized a flood simulation exercise in April 2025 in two rural municipalities of Madhesh Province.The simulation focused on two core components: last-mile dissemination of early warning messages and the distribution of hermetic bags, with a particular focus on refining targeting criteria for beneficiary list development and testing delivery mechanisms in a controlled environment. This document provides an overview of the simulation development and execution process and highlights lessons learned from the exercise, which served to strengthen the preparedness of FAO country staff and volunteers for future activations. -
Book (stand-alone)Integrated flood management for resilient agrifood systems and rural development 2023
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No results found.This report presents a perspective on the impacts of flooding in rural areas and how to address them in an integrated way that delivers multiple long-term benefits for people (food, water, and economic security) and nature. The challenges faced by rural communities are illustrated and a strategic approach to flood management is presented. The approach advocated is based on a paradigm of planning that connects the short and long term, seeks to simultaneously manage flood risk to people, their agrifood systems, related livelihoods and the economy, while promoting the positive (and necessary) role floods play in maintaining productive agriculture (and aquaculture) and ecosystem health. In doing so, the approach embeds the concepts of disaster risk reduction (DRR) that are integral to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, which contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the crucial need to progress at pace towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The report highlights how flood management practice has evolved throughout history largely in response to flood events. This heuristic approach has yielded some important advances in both policy and planning. Central to this has been the shift from a reactive emergency-based response towards a proactive approach aimed at reducing and managing flood risks. There is however more to do. Recognizing that rural areas have received disproportionately less attention, and current approaches to planning and management are less well established in rural areas compared to urban areas (Asian Development Bank, 2018), a small number of recommendations are set to help make more rapid progress towards flood resilience in rural settings.
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