Agricultural diversity and traditional knowledg.e as insurance against natural disasters

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  • R R Thaman
  • M Meleisea
چکیده

... in terms of prevention preparedness and recovery or rehabilitation from natural disasters in the Pacific Islands that local traditional agricultural diversity and traditional knowledge have considerable value in helping island societies solve the problems presented by natural disasters. At present, however, there is an increasing reliancy by individual island societies (eg. Villages, outer islands, etc) on central governments and overseas aid (either in the form of goods or money or expertise) to provide disaster planning and to provide relief and rehabilitation aid. In short these societies are becoming less self-reliant. If this continues we believe that this increasing dependence both by island societies on their central government or by island governments on overseas aid will:

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تاریخ انتشار 2006