Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment

Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment

This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels. The re...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL RISK
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
RISK MITIGATION
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667021584421611242/Zimbabwe-Agriculture-Sector-Disaster-Risk-Assessment
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33471
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spelling okr-10986-334712021-05-25T09:33:31Z Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment World Bank AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RISK CLIMATE RESILIENCE NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT RISK MITIGATION AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels. The report shows that disaster-related shocks along Zimbabwe’s agricultural supply chains directly translate to volatility in agricultural GDP. Such shocks have a substantial impact on economic growth, food security, and fiscal balance. When catastrophic disasters occur, the economy absorbs the shocks, without benefiting from any instruments that transfer the risk to markets and coping ability. The increasing prevalence of ‘shock recovery-shock’ cycles impairs Zimbabwe’s ability to plan and pursue a sustainable development path. The findings presented here confirm that it is highly pertinent for Zimbabwe to strengthen the capacity to manage risk at various levels, from the smallholder farmer, to other participants along the supply chain, to consumers (who require a reliable, safe food supply), and ultimately to the government to manage natural disasters. The assessment provides the following evidence on sources of risks and plausible risk management solutions. It is our hope that the report contributes to action by the Government of Zimbabwe to adopt a proactive and integrated risk management strategy appropriate to the current structure of the agricultural sector. 2020-03-24T18:53:49Z 2020-03-24T18:53:49Z 2019-03-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667021584421611242/Zimbabwe-Agriculture-Sector-Disaster-Risk-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33471 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Agricultural Study Africa Zimbabwe
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topic AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL RISK
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
RISK MITIGATION
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE
spellingShingle AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL RISK
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
RISK MITIGATION
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE
World Bank
Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
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description This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels. The report shows that disaster-related shocks along Zimbabwe’s agricultural supply chains directly translate to volatility in agricultural GDP. Such shocks have a substantial impact on economic growth, food security, and fiscal balance. When catastrophic disasters occur, the economy absorbs the shocks, without benefiting from any instruments that transfer the risk to markets and coping ability. The increasing prevalence of ‘shock recovery-shock’ cycles impairs Zimbabwe’s ability to plan and pursue a sustainable development path. The findings presented here confirm that it is highly pertinent for Zimbabwe to strengthen the capacity to manage risk at various levels, from the smallholder farmer, to other participants along the supply chain, to consumers (who require a reliable, safe food supply), and ultimately to the government to manage natural disasters. The assessment provides the following evidence on sources of risks and plausible risk management solutions. It is our hope that the report contributes to action by the Government of Zimbabwe to adopt a proactive and integrated risk management strategy appropriate to the current structure of the agricultural sector.
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title Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
title_short Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
title_full Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
title_fullStr Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
title_full_unstemmed Zimbabwe : Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Assessment
title_sort zimbabwe : agriculture sector disaster risk assessment
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667021584421611242/Zimbabwe-Agriculture-Sector-Disaster-Risk-Assessment
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