Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture

CHAPTER 1

Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture: Case Studies in South Asia—An Introduction

Huong Ha

School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan

Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India

R. Lalitha S. Fernando

Department of Public Administration, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Introduction

Disasters entail serious consequences to all groups of stakeholders, including the environment, at all levels, international, regional, national, and local. To the agricultural sector, disasters are synonymous with loss of crops and productivity, loss of livelihood among farmers and those who work in supporting sectors, soil degradation, and many other damages. To countries that rely heavily ...