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Guidelines and recommendations for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Agriculture

Year of publication 2017

Author FAO and UNISDR

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The document presents Guidelines and Recommendations for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Agricultural Sector and Food and Nutrition Security. It starts with a justification for doing the work: the demand for assistance to FAO in the CELAC 2014 and 2015 Action Plans and the regional context of the agricultural sector and SAN in terms of the impact of disasters, poverty, climate change and Degradation of natural resources. It then presents the Sendai F ramework, which provides the conceptual framework for the report, and an analysis of its innovations in relation to the Hyogo Framework for Action for Risk Reduction 2005-2015. Finally, a description of sectoral progress in the area of ​​disaster risk management and reduction and of the results of the consultation carried out allows for general guidelines for the reduction of disaster risk in the sector and the delineation of specific recommendations on the basis of the four priorities of the Se ndai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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