Impacts of natural disasters on smallholder farmers : gaps and recommendations
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2017
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BioMed Central
Abstract
Lessons from disaster relief situations demonstrate that national governments, aid agencies, and international/non-governmental organizations (I/NGOs) are effective at distributing short-term products to cities. This paper proposes an emergency sustainable agriculture kit (eSAK) framework for disaster relief in rural areas with products that can be combined into packages to address the needs of shelter, hunger, first aid, seeds, preservation of indigenous crop varieties, and post-disaster labour shortages. Products include rolls of agricultural-grade plastics, low-oxygen grain storage bags, waterproof gardening gloves, multi-use shovels, seeds of early maturing crops, fertilizers, inexpensive farming tools, temporary food support, and first-aid kits.
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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NATURAL DISASTER RECOVERY, FOOD SECURITY, SMALLHOLDERS, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE KITS, INDIGENOUS VEGETABLES, EMERGENCY RELIEF, GLOBAL SOUTH, HUMAN SECURITY, RURAL POOR, DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
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Chapagain, T., & Raizada, M. N. (2017). Impacts of natural disasters on smallholder farmers: gaps and recommendations. Agriculture & Food Security, 6(1), 39.