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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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2010); social protection, through conditional cash transfers and temporary employment programmes (Farrington et al., 2008
Farrington, J., Holmes, R. and Slater, R. 2008.,Linking Agriculture Growth and Social Protection: Conceptual framework., ODI Background Paper., London: Overseas Development Institute.,. . Devereux, S. 2003.,Policy Options for Increasing the Contribution of Social Protection to Food Security., Institute for Development Studies, Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa., Brighton: IDS.,. . UNISDR. 2011.,Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Revealing Risk, Redefining Development., United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction., Geneva,Switzerland: UNISDR.. . But for approaches like these to be viable, an enabling policy environment will be required, involving all institutions engaged in property and land-holding registration, environmental protection and land-use departments as well as business regulators (
 Fava Neves and Alves Pinto, 2012 Fava Neves, M. and Alves Pinto M. 2012.,Analysis of the relationship between public regulation and investment decisions for disaster risk reduction in the agribusiness sector., Background Paper prepared for the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction., Geneva,Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. Hill and Pittman, 2012 Hill, H. and Pittman, J. 2012.,Agriculture and Disaster Risk Reduction., Background Paper prepared for the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction., Geneva,Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. In Brazil, for example, the government has been successful in promoting substantial private investment into food and non-food agricultural production by creating incentives through a mixture of infrastructure improvements and policy instruments (Box 10.7).
For government departments concerned with increasing growth and investment, the challenge is to present an approach as a competitive advantage in the context of stimulus packages for agribusiness
investments, such as the provision of local infrastructure; the regulation of environmental protection as well as human resources; taxation policies; and research and development (Fava Neves, 2011
Fava Neves, M. 2011.,Food chains and the reasons behind rising food prices., Food Chain, Vol. 1, No. 1. (May 2011). pp. 52-70.. . Cattaneo. 2002.,Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon., Research Report 129., Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. . As highlighted in Chapter 6, improved modelling of agricultural drought and other hazards, together with down-scaled climate scenarios can provide an evidence base that would encourage informed investments by the agribusiness sector and more relevant and effective public policy decisions by governments.
Increasing agricultural productivity and resilience alone will not eliminate food insecurity for highly vulnerable rural households who rely on purchased food and aid. However, by increasing the value and quantity of crops smallholder farmers are able to
(Source: UNISDR, based on
Fava Neves and Alves Pinto, 2012 Fava Neves, M. and Alves Pinto M. 2012.,Analysis of the relationship between public regulation and investment decisions for disaster risk reduction in the agribusiness sector., Background Paper prepared for the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction., Geneva,Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. Figure 10.19 Components for improving the resilience of smallholder farmers
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