The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023 is the outcome of extensive collaboration across several technical divisions and offices within FAO, primarily including the Economic and Social Development Stream, the Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER), the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB), and the Natural Resources and Sustainable Production stream.
The report was jointly produced by the Statistics Division of FAO (ESS) and OER, with the overall guidance of Laurent Thomas and Maximo Torero Cullen, and under the direction of José Rosero Moncayo and Rein Paulsen. The development of the report was coordinated by a team consisting of Zehra Zaidi, the editor of the publication, and Wirya Khim, Piero Conforti, Stephan Baas, Laurel Hanson and Veronica Boero. Managerial support was provided by Piero Conforti, Shukri Ahmed, Fleur Wouterse and Dunja Dujanovic.
Central to the development of the report were the technical papers and background materials prepared and revised by several FAO experts. Valuable comments and final approval of the report were provided by the executive heads and senior staff of various FAO divisions.
Part 1 of the report was written by Zehra Zaidi and Piero Conforti, with input from Wirya Khim and Laurel Hanson.
Part 2 of the report was coordinated by Zehra Zaidi. Section 2.1 was written by Zehra Zaidi. Sylvain Ponserre and Vicente Anzellini of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center developed BOX 2 on displacement, and Giulia Caivano and Priti Rajagopalan produced BOX 3 on gender in section 2.1. Zehra Zaidi wrote section 2.2 with support from Piero Conforti. Rahul Sengupta and Xuan Che of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) provided data and input for the analysis of the C2 Sendai Indicator. Section 2.3 was written by Piero Conforti, Zehra Zaidi, Veronica Boero, Priti Rajagopalan and Esther Laske. Key inputs were provided by Priti Rajagopalan, Esther Laske and Veronica Boero on the estimation of disaster losses, while support and comments were provided by Antonio Scognamillo, Nidhi Chaudhary and Xinman Liu. Subsection 2.3.2 on nutrition was produced by Esther Laske, in collaboration with Nancy Aburto, Bridget Holmes and Victoria Padula de Quadro. Section 2.4 was coordinated by Zehra Zaidi, with key inputs from Esther Laske. Background papers and technical inputs for section 2.3 and section 2.4 were provided by Joachim Otte and Dominik Wisser from the Animal Production and Health Division (NSA), Charles Midega (independent consultant), Buyung Hadi and Shawn McGuire on behalf of the Plant Protection and Production Division (NSP), Lara Steil, Shiroma Sathyapala, Peter Moore, William John de Groot, Erik Lindquist and Amy Duchelle as contributing authors for the Forestry Division (NFO), and Stefania Savore, Iris Monnereau, Silke Pietzsch (FAORAP), James McCafferty (independent consultant) and Latu ‘Aisea (Ministry of Fisheries, Tonga) on behalf of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division (NFI).
Part 3 of the report was coordinated by Wirya Khim, Laurel Hanson and Stephan Baas. For section 3.1, Wirya Khim, Stephan Baas, Laurel Hanson and Julia Wolf provided overall coordination and guidance with input from Piero Conforti and Zehra Zaidi. The policy developments section was written by Makie Yoshida and Silvia Santato. The attribution and impact study was written by Sabine Undorf (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research), Bernhard Schauberger (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science), Lennart Jansen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/University of Kassel), Paula Romanovska (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) and Christoph Gornott (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/University of Kassel) with input from Hideki Kanamaru, Wirya Khim, Laurel Hanson and Stephan Baas. Section 3.2.1 was written by Amandine Poncin, Neil Marsland and Josselin Gauny, with inputs from Wirya Khim and Laurel Hanson. Section 3.2.2 was written by Damian Tago Pacheco, Bouda Vosough Ahmadi, Andriy Rozstalnyy, Madhur Dhingra and Keith Sumption, with input from Wirya Khim, Laurel Hanson and Stephan Baas. Section 3.3 was written by Laurel Hanson, Julius Jackson and Neil Marsland with input from Daniele Barelli and Josselin Gauny.
Part 4 of the report was coordinated by Wirya Khim, Stephan Baas and Laurel Hanson. Section 4.1 was written by Wirya Khim, Tamara Van’t Wout and Laurel Hanson with input from Stephan Baas and Niccolò Lombardi. Section 4.2 was written by Nicholas Bodanac and Niccolò Lombardi with input from Wirya Khim and Laurel Hanson. Section 4.3 was written by Sergio Innocente, Wirya Khim and Laurel Hanson with input from Keith Cressman, Cyril Ferrand, Shoki Al Dobai, Stephan Baas and Shukri Ahmed.
Part 5 was jointly prepared by Zehra Zaidi and Piero Conforti, with input from Esther Laske, Wirya Khim, Laurel Hanson and Stephan Baas.
Numerous external experts provided comprehensive reviews and valuable technical comments for the report. The entire report was peer reviewed by Julio Serje (former UNDRR staff member).
For Part 2 of the report, Sepehr Marzi, of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), and Jeremy Pal of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) undertook a technical review of the methodology. Specific reviews for section 2.4 were provided by Yacob Aklilu (Farm-D) for the livestock section, by Kris Wykhuis (FAO), Roger Day (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International [CABI]), Anna Szyniszewska (CABI), Bryony Taylor (CABI) and Fazil Dusunceli for the section on fall armyworm, Ane Alencar (the Amazon Environmental Research Institute [IPAM]), Brett Hurley (University of Pretoria), Gary Man, Simon Lawson, Robert Rabaglia (USDA Forest Service), Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz (JRC) for the section on forestry and Denis Lacroix (Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer [Ifremer]) for the section on fisheries.
Section 3.1 was reviewed by Carlos Dionisio Perez Blanco (University of Salamanca), Elisa Calliari (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Andrea Toretti (JRC), Rupert Stuart-Smith (Oxford University), James Douris (World Meteorological Organization [WMO]), Veronica Grasso (WMO), Sihan Li (University of Sheffield) and Toshichika Iizumi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization [NARO] – Japan). Section 3.2.1 on the COVID-19 pandemic was reviewed by Mark Alexander Constas (Cornell University) and John M. Ulimwengu (International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI]), while section 3.2.2 on African swine fever was reviewed by Manon Schuppers (SAFOSO AG) and Karl Rich (Oklahoma State University). Section 3.3 on the impact of armed conflicts on agriculture was reviewed by Dominique Blariaux (Post Crisis Assessment and Recovery Planning: Support Office of the European Union), Iryna Vysotska (The Quality Food Trade Program) and Igor Kravchenko (The Quality Food Trade Program).
Production support was provided by Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue and Chiara Gnetti. The FAO Publications and Library Branch of the Office of Communications provided editorial support, design, and layout, as well as production coordination for editions in all six official languages. The FAO Meeting Branch and Language Services Branch of Governing Bodies Servicing Division (CSG) carried out the translations.
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THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS. An average of 12 000 hectares of crops like cotton, corn and walnut were affected by rain and river overflows.