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The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2007, Regulation of Emergency Relief
Assistance for Disaster Affected Farmers (2009), and Animal Epidemic Act (1956) are
some of them. Similarly, the National Plan for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (2010–
2014), Integrated Plan for Mitigating Impacts of Global Warming in Agriculture Sector
(2008–2011), Plan for Disaster Response in Agricultural Sector for fiscal year 2010, and
Operational Guidelines for Centre for Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation in Agriculture
Sector at Provincial level, and National Master Plan on Climate Change (2010–2019) are
some of the key disaster risk reduction plans formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Cooperatives (MOAC) and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) to
address disaster risk and climate change that are expected to impact the agriculture sector
now and in the future.
Natural disasters have both direct and indirect impacts on the agriculture economy, social
well-being and the environment. Direct impacts in the agriculture sector are direct physical
damage and losses to crops, livestock, and fisheries caused by extreme hydro-meteorological
events. Indirect impacts refer to loss of potential production due to disturbed flow of
goods and services, lost production capacities, and increased costs of production. Some
of the policy recommendations to enhance resilience of the farming communities and fisher
folk in Thailand against any future natural disasters could be briefly summarized for different
sub-sectors as follows:
Crops
(1) Enhance national and local governance systems for sustainable agriculture ................
development by implementing context specific policy reforms such as land ..................
management, Integrated Water Resources Management that focuses on river .............
basins, intensifying crop diversity, use of flood and drought resistant crop
varieties, integrated pest management, developing crop insurance schemes ...............
for small-scale farmers, enhancing people participation for policy discourse and ..........
program planning and implementation.
(2) Create a conducive environment for the Department of Agriculture Extension ..............
to prepare department specific Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plans in
accordance with the broader DRR and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
framework and plans of MOAC. Target the land use change and biomass
produced from the agriculture sector, which are the key sources for Green ..................
House Gas Emissions, and formulate policies, plans and practices to address .............
them.
Livestock
(1) Enhance national and local governance systems for sustainable livestock
production by implementing context specific policy reforms such as developing
livestock insurance schemes for small-scale farmers, enhancing people partici-............
pation for policy discourse and program planning and implementation.
(2) Formulate an inclusive policy to accommodate both large- and small-scale
livestock farmers for insurance schemes.
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