Experience shows that the negative and cumulative impact of disasters erodes livelihoods and
coping capacities overtime. Disasters destroy crops and livestock, physical capital and livelihood
assets, market infrastructure and productive inputs. To cope, rural families will often use their
savings or increase borrowing to meet basic needs, depleting their resource base even further,
increasing levels of indebtedness and eroding livelihoods over time. In some cases, disasters
destroy or contaminate productive land, destroy critical infrastructure and disrupt market access
and trade.27
Not surprisingly, countries in protracted crisis situations show high levels of food insecurity.
Protracted crises are characterized by recurrent natural disasters and/or conflict, longevity of
food crises, breakdown of livelihoods and insufficient institutional capacity to react to the crises.
On average, the proportion of people who are undernourished is almost three times as high in
countries in protracted crisis as in other developing countries28
.
Experience shows that the negative and cumulative impact of disasters erodes livelihoods andcoping capacities overtime. Disasters destroy crops and livestock, physical capital and livelihoodassets, market infrastructure and productive inputs. To cope, rural families will often use theirsavings or increase borrowing to meet basic needs, depleting their resource base even further,increasing levels of indebtedness and eroding livelihoods over time. In some cases, disastersdestroy or contaminate productive land, destroy critical infrastructure and disrupt market accessand trade.27Not surprisingly, countries in protracted crisis situations show high levels of food insecurity.Protracted crises are characterized by recurrent natural disasters and/or conflict, longevity offood crises, breakdown of livelihoods and insufficient institutional capacity to react to the crises.On average, the proportion of people who are undernourished is almost three times as high incountries in protracted crisis as in other developing countries28.
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