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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY: FAO GOOD PRACTICE

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY: FAO GOOD PRACTICE. DRM Working Group FAO Rome. Overview. Context Food security and systems in the hazard context FAO and Climate Risk Management Good Practice Lessons. CONTEXT. Increasing populations/urbanization

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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY: FAO GOOD PRACTICE

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  1. DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY:FAO GOOD PRACTICE DRM Working Group FAO Rome

  2. Overview • Context • Food security and systems in the hazard context • FAO and Climate Risk Management • Good Practice • Lessons

  3. CONTEXT Increasing populations/urbanization Increased demand for food and dietary convergence Limited areas to enhance food production Many hazard prone countries are LIFDCs Climate change

  4. FOOD SECURITY • Exists when all people at all times have physical or economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active healthy life. • Four dimension of food security: Availability, Access, Stability and Utilization

  5. HAZARD IMPACTS ON FOOD SYSTEMS • Food production losses • Infrastructure damage • Asset losses • Increased livelihood risks • More food emergencies • Health risks

  6. How does FAO address DRR? Recovery & Rehabilitation Development & disaster risk reduction (DRR) Emergency response period Normal economic/social growth pattern Normal economic/social growth pattern Ongoing development activities Risk assessment Mitigation/prevention Recontruction Warning/evacuation Search & rescue Economic/social recovery Preparedness Re-establish logistic routes Restoration of infrastructural services Coordination Major hazard/disaster Provide ongoing assistance Emergency initiatives Damage assessment Recovery initiatives DRR initiatives Media response Mainstreaming DRR into ongoing development processes

  7. FAO Technical Support • Risk reducing technologies • Sectoral policies and institutions • Infrastructure improvement • Climate and weather information • Emergency response and rehabilitation • Livelihoods support, promotion and diversification

  8. Policy and local support: DRR and adaptation in agriculture Local processes of risk reduction and adaptation Policy-based measures • ENHANCING CAPACITIES • TECHNOLOGICAL • INSTITUTIONAL AND • BEHAVIOURAL CREATING INCENTIVES FOR DRR and ADAPTATION AT FARM-LEVEL DRR and ADAPTATION MEASURES IMPLEMENTED BY GOVERNMENT Key message: need to act on both levels (local processes plus policies) by institutionalizing support for CBDRM/CBA

  9. DRR/CAA Implementation Approach • Assess current vulnerability, risks and local livelihoods by agro-ecological zone/socioeconomic setting • Assess future climate risks & overlay to current Stakeholder Engagement • Enhance inst & technical capacities for adaptation • Identify, validate and test adaptation options • Design location-specific risk reduction strategies • Up-scaling and mainstreaming in annual (sectoral) development plans • Guiding principles • Building on what already exists • Focus on poor & small holders • Linking top down & bottom up perspectives • linking DRR & CCA; action research • Cross-sectoral livelihood perspective Source: FAO-LACC (2008) http://www.fao.org/forestry/47375/en/

  10. GOOD PRACTICECuba, Grenada, Haiti and Jamaica Impact mitigation of climatic hazards in agriculture • DRR integrated into sectoral planning in agriculture and livestock sector • Pilot interventions at community level • Knowledge exchange on DRR among countries • Documentation of good practices for local risk reduction in AG: • diversified cropping • control soil erosion • tree management

  11. GOOD PRACTICE - Indonesia: Building back better after the tsunami • Building capacities of local and provincial authorities as well as vulnerable fishing communities to jointly manage coastal fisheries in a sustainable way • Model of post-disaster rehabilitation and transition project – demonstrates how development practices can be applied in relief settings and emergency projects • Good practice for longer-term sustainable development in fisheries

  12. Lessons • Food security perspective: DRR and CCA go together • Address DRR/CCA within broader vulnerability context • No single approach or practice: use option menus by AEZ; systematic documentation; farmers take only what benefits; framework conditions may change • Push for doing better on known sustainable land and water management practices (no-regret) • Cross-sectoral perspective is essential: need to better catalyze sectoral buy-in as partners in DRR/CCA • Re-think the role of research: R&D linkages and extension services (for poor) as vehicles for DRR/CCA implementation

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