Description: Mozambique is one of the few countries with a disaster database that systematically records drought losses, so the real scale of drought risk becomes visible. Since 1990, drought events damaged 8 million hectares of crops (half of which were destroyed) and affected 11.5 million people. Thus, international under-reporting of drought losses undermines the visibility of drought risk and the political and economic imperative for its reduction, and also hides the significant implications for livelihoods of small-scale farmers, especially elderly and women farmers and female-headed households.
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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