Hazard Mitigation: Caribbean Small-Scale Farmers’ Coping and Adaptation Strategies for Hurricanes and Drought

Abstract

This chapter explores the adaptation and coping strategies of Caribbean smallholder farmers against hurricanes and droughts. The vulnerability of the agriculture sector to both climate change and climate variability is well established (Parry et al., 2004; Slingo et al., 2005). The general consensus is that agricultural productivity will be reduced as a result of changes in temperature and rainfall (Slingo et al., 2005) and the increasing frequency of extreme meteorological events.