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This is an excerpt from the report, The impact of disasters on agriculture and food security: avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience’, published in 2023 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Read the full report at https://shorturl.at/cqMP1.
“Agriculture around the world is increasingly at risk of being disrupted by multiple hazards and threats, such as flooding, water scarcity, drought, declining agricultural yields and fisheries resources, loss of biological diversities and environmental degradation. Geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and mass movements damage infrastructure and cause widespread disruption to the services and networks (such as transport and market access) on which agriculture is reliant.
Variations in water supply and extreme temperatures are two of