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Flood as an indicator for food security in eastern Terai, Nepal (2017-2022)

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) Flooding in the lowlands of Nepal is common. To assess the hazards to food security in eastern terai, flood occurrence for 2017-2022 and people’s exposure to flood are calculated. Cropland data is obtained from the land cover of Nepal (2019) and flood occurrence from a change detection approach using Sentinel-1 (SAR) data. The population data are obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics (2021), Nepal.

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