Agricultural damage and losses caused by natural disasters
FAO developed a harmonized methodology on measuring agricultural damage and losses caused by disasters. The methodology aims to measure monetary damage to agricultural assets and infrastructure, as well as the value of production losses attributed to disasters in the crops, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry sectors. The computation methods allow measuring the direct effects of a wide range of disaster types, including sudden and slow onset weather and climate-related events. Furthermore, the methodology can be applied to disasters of small, medium and large-scale. Such harmonized methodology is at the disposal of countries as a means to address the information and knowledge gap on disaster impact on agriculture, and it represents a valuable analytical tool to assess indicators of disaster impacts at all levels, and to support the design of evidence-based resilience and adaptation policies and actions.
The methodology for the quantitative analysis of production losses and changes in economic flows after disasters included selection of natural hazards, assessment of agriculture production losses after natural hazards, assessment of changes in trade flows after natural hazards and assessment of changes in agriculture value-added growth after natural hazards.