Good practice examples for disaster risk reduction in Cuban agriculture

Assistance to improve local agricultural emergency preparedness - Final project report:

This report addresses the vulnerability of the Caribbean region to hydro-meteorological hazards such as hurricanes, floods, drought, high magnitude rainfall and related hazards such landslides and the related extreme vulnerability of the agricultural sector. It reports on a project aiming to contribute to community-based disaster management planning and community level risk management within the agricultural sector.

It provides the summary of examples of good practices adopted in Cuba in various agricultural sectors, which contribute to mitigating the damage caused by hurricanes and similar events. Each practice includes its name, the event to which it applies, whether traditional or introduced (if the latter, the year of introduction), a summary of the practice, the benefits reported, the material requirements and the prospects for replicating it in other regions of the area, with photographs.