Building resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters in the Caribbean
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While another active and likely severe hurricane season is approaching, different countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, particularly in the Caribbean, continue to slowly recover from the impacts caused by the catastrophic Irma and Maria events of last year.
At the same time, more countries remain highly exposed to natural disasters – of different nature – whose frequency and severity is worsened by the effect of climate change and the limited application of measures for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the region.
According to the results of Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs) conducted in Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda, the overall amount of damage and losses that occurred in the agriculture sector and sub-sectors (crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) in these two countries, after the last hurricane season, are: USD 211 million and USD 0.5 million respectively. These figures show how severely natural disasters can affect the economy and food security and nutrition of countries and people largely relying on the agriculture sector and sub-sectors.