Mainville Denise Y
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, USA.
Disasters. 2003 Jun;27(2):154-71. doi: 10.1111/1467-7717.00226.
The bulk of developing countries' populations and poor depend on agriculture for food and income. While rural economies and people are generally the most severely affected by natural disasters, little is known about how disasters and subsequent relief activities affect agricultural markets with differing levels of development. The article addresses this gap, drawing evidence from bean seed markets in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Case studies are used to address hypotheses about a disaster's effects on supply and demand in seed markets, farmers' responses and the performance of relief interventions in markets showing differing levels of development. The results show the importance of tailoring relief interventions to the markets that they will affect and to the specific effects of a disaster; the potential to use local and emerging seed distribution channels in a relief intervention; and opportunities for relief activities to strengthen community seed systems.
大多数发展中国家的人口及贫困人口依靠农业获取食物和收入。虽然农村经济和人口通常受自然灾害影响最为严重，但对于不同发展水平地区的灾害及后续救援活动如何影响农业市场，人们却知之甚少。本文通过对洪都拉斯米奇飓风过后菜豆种子市场的研究来填补这一空白。案例研究用于验证关于灾害对种子市场供需影响、农民应对措施以及不同发展水平市场中救援干预效果的假设。结果表明，根据受影响市场及灾害的具体影响量身定制救援干预措施十分重要；在救援干预中利用当地及新兴种子分销渠道的潜力；以及救援活动加强社区种子系统的机会。
