CHAPTER 4
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: Toward Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Sri Lanka
R. Lalitha S. FernandoM.S. Dimuthu KumariW.M.D.M. Dissanayaka
Department of Public Administration, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Background of the Study and Problem Identification
The agriculture sector remains the backbone of many rural economies. (According to the World Bank (2017a), the agricultural sector contributes 4 percent to global gross domestic product (GDP) and around 26 percent to the GDP of many least developed countries. Also, the population directly involved in agriculture is significant. By 2017, the figure is about 26.81 percent at the global level and 60 percent from least developed countries (World ...
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