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Development of an Enhanced Production and Risk Management in Agriculture Integrated Decision Support System (EPRIMA) - TCP/PHI/3604

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 10

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Philippines has the second highest exposure to natural hazards of any country in the world It lies in the typhoon belt through which storms generated in the western Pacific Ocean pass As an archipelago with low lying coasts, the country is particularly exposed to storm surges, tsunamis and rising sea levels, with recent trends indicating an increased frequency and intensity of impact of hydro meteorological hazards From 1995 to 2013 the agriculture and fisheries sector absorbed an average 27 percent of the economic impacts of natural hazards and disasters, with losses from disasters jumping to 37 percent in the period 2010 2013 At least 60 percent of the land area of the Philippines is exposed to multiple hazards, including typhoons, tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, forest fires and pandemics The country is also faced by agricultural and natural resource risks as a result of rapid urbanization, migration and socio economic changes The aim of the project was to increase resilience against multiple threats to the agriculture sector by facilitating the development of an Integrated Decision Support System for Enhanced Production and Risk Management in Agriculture This would allow key actors in DA to make more effective and timely decisions through more comprehensive and near real time access to crop production and risk and damage assessment information and tools The project would support three important dimensions of disaster risk reduction ( i e reducing existing risks, avoiding new risks and addressing underlying vulnerabilities.

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