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Status of Disaster Risk Management. Plans for Floods, Hurricanes and Drought in the Agriculture Sector. A Caribbean Perspective

Year of publication 2013

Pages 66

Author FAO Subregional Office in Barbados;Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Environment and Natural Resources Management Working Paper

Series number 9789251071502|2226-6062

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) 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).

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