Managing Weather-Related Disasters in Southeast Asian Agriculture by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Environment/Development/Agriculture and Food
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

4.2. Strengthening prevention and mitigation policies to OECD good practices

Following good practices in DRM, policy measures that encourage farmers and their communities to take prevention and mitigation action can reduce their risk exposure to weather-related disasters (Carter, 2008; OECD, 2016c). These measures often require long-term investment into physical and human capital from national authorities and agencies on the one hand, and from households and their communities on the other hand. Therefore, these prevention and mitigation measures require forward planning. Recent milestone weather-related disasters in the four countries studied have inflicted massive damage and losses to the agricultural sector (Table 3.1 in Chapter 3), let alone human casualties, which are still difficult to estimate. This catastrophic impact points to a lack of prevention and preparedness to these recurrent disasters in these countries.

This section reviews five main measures that governments can employ to reduce risk in the agricultural sector. First, (i) water management infrastructure can reduce exposure to extreme weather events. Governments can also provide (ii) information to farmers to encourage risk reduction on the farm. However, information is not always enough to incentivise changes in farmers' behaviour: (iii) regulations, (iv) economic incentives and (v) insurance products should also be designed to reduce the risk from weather-related disasters.

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