Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation in Agriculture Sector in Sri Lanka: Assessing Loss and Damages due to Climate-Induced Disasters - Technical Report
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2023-07-11
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Climate change is likely to increase the vulnerability of agriculture sector, which is inherently a risk-prone activity. Both, changing patterns of climate and extreme climate events, could result in losses and damages to agriculture thereby increasing livelihood risks faced by farmers and business risk of agricultural firms. Those losses and damages can cause severe economic and social impacts over millions of farmers, especially in developing countries where farming is the main livelihood. The overall objective of the study is to understand the linkages between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation for reducing losses and damages incurred by the agriculture sector due to climate related disasters. The study aims to: identify the vulnerability of agriculture sector in Sri Lanka to losses and damages due to extreme events, slow-onset disasters and anomalies in familiar patterns of climate variability; explore methodological approaches developed for assessing losses and damages and identify suitable approaches that can be adapted to cater the needs of agriculture sector in Sri Lanka, and; identify ways for establishing baselines for the current losses and damages caused by climate related disasters on the agriculture sector, demonstrating the applicability of selected approaches to assess loss and damages.
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Climate change; agriculture; Sri Lanka; loss and damage