Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation in Agriculture Sector in Sri Lanka: Policy Directions for Devsing a Mechanism for Assessing Losses and Damages

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dc.contributor.authorSenaratne, Athula
dc.contributor.authorSenaratne, Athula
dc.contributor.authorWickramasinghe, Kanchana
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-11T06:04:58Z
dc.date.available2023-07-11T06:04:58Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-11
dc.description.abstractAgriculture sector is one of the most vulnerable sectors to impacts of climate change in Sri Lanka. Increased incidences of extreme events such as floods, droughts and landslides as well as slow-onset impacts such as rising temperature and anomalies in rainfall patterns affect the performance of agriculture sector. Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector is comprised of two broad subsectors, namely, food security subsector and export agriculture subsector. Recent experience indicates that climate related hazards pose a significant threat on production, farm assets and livelihoods associated with both subsectors. The report deals with Sri Lanka’s loss and damage NDCs with special focus on agriculture sector, which has been identified as one of the most vulnerable sectors to losses and damages due to climate change impacts. One objective of the study is to identify policy directions for linking ongoing disaster risk management and climate change adaptation interventions through the means of establishing a mechanism for assessing losses and damages due to extreme events, slow-onset disasters and climate anomalies. A dedicated policy analysis was carried out to achieve this objective. The specific aims of this analysis are to review existing policies in Sri Lanka for management of disaster risks and adaptation to climate change impacts in agriculture sector, examine the prospects for assessing losses and damages due to climate related disasters on agriculture to strengthen disaster risk management and climate change adaptation and to suggest suitable policy directions to improve resilience of agriculture sector through devising a mechanism for assessing losses and damages.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUNDPen_US
dc.identifier.shortcitationIPS, 2017en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://econspace.ips.lk/handle/789/4441
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectClimate change; agriculture; Sri Lanka; loss and damageen_US
dc.titleDisaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation in Agriculture Sector in Sri Lanka: Policy Directions for Devsing a Mechanism for Assessing Losses and Damagesen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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