Additional training and outreach is also needed to help ensure farmers adequately prepare for cyclones and implement adaptation measures that help reduce their overall vulnerability to climate risks. Madagascar's National Strategy for Reducing Risks and Disasters [50] recommends that farmers prepare for cyclones by storing enough food and clean water for the duration and immediate aftermath of the cyclone, securing homes and other assets to minimize potential damage, and seeking refuge in secure buildings to prevent human injury and death, however many farmers did not follow these instructions and were therefore unprepared when cyclone Giovanna arrived