Disaster risk reduction at farm level: Multiple benefits, no regrets
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As an alternative to over-reliance on reactive responses that see large amounts of money spent on post-disaster agriculture recovery, implementing preventative disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures before shocks occur has significant potential to enhance rural resilience in the face of hazards. A number of known, affordable, and easily implemented DRR practices exist that can, if scaled-up and widely implemented, avoid billions of dollars in lost agricultural production and reduce the price-tag of post-disaster interventions. Using farm-level data acquired at over 900 different sites and spanning all world regions, the unique FAO study summarized in this brochure quantifies the economic and production gains made possible through DRR in agriculture – even under hazard conditions – highlighting its value as a disaster management strategy.