When disasters strike, poor people often lose their assets on which their survival depends. At the same time, their limited resources, lack of access to education and health services can increase their expose to risks. For example, many poor people's livelihoods depend on agriculture
Poor rural livelihoods are highly exposed and vulnerable to weather-related hazards and have a low resilience to loss because they have little or no surplus capacity to absorb crop or livestock income losses and to recover. Even a small loss might feedback into further poverty and future vulnerability.
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