Appropriate seed and grain storage systems for small-scale farmers: key practices for DRR implementers
2014
Taruvinga, C. | Mejia, D. | Sanz Alvarez, J.
This brief provides practical guidelines on storage practices and methodologies to assist southern African farmers prone to natural hazards, mainly cyclones, droughts and floods. Indeed, suboptimal storage of agricultural products can lead to important losses resulting in increased vulnerability of these farmers in normal conditions, but the combined effect of natural disasters and poor storage practices may lead to tremendous losses for small farmers, with devastating effects both from economic and food security points of view.
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