A methodology for estimating disaster-induced crop and livestock losses at the global scale

Rajagopalan, P.; Laske, E.; Zaidi, Z.; Boero, V.;

A methodology for estimating disaster-induced crop and livestock losses at the global scale

Autores

Rajagopalan, P.; Laske, E.; Zaidi, Z.; Boero, V.;

Editor

FAO ;

Descripción

Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to extreme climatic events, yet knowledge is lacking regarding the precise extent of losses caused by disasters in the sector. This analysis aims to provide the most extensive estimation of disaster losses (including non-hydrometeorological disasters) in the agricultural sector worldwide by including data from 197 countries and 186 commodities from 1991 to 2021, accounting for 12 000 time series and about 9 000 disaster events. The disaster events data is drawn from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) and the records of yields, productions, cultivated areas, and prices for all commodities over the period from FAOSTAT.