Vulnerable hot spots to water and agricultural risk in Sri Lanka
This paper presents vulnerability hot spots to water and agricultural risk in Sri Lanka at the river basin level. Sri Lanka has 103 river basins. However, many of the coastal river basins are very small to obtain accurate estimates using the methodology used in the paper. Therefore, the analysis considers several small contiguous coastal river basins as a single river basin. The study, thus, examines 38 river basins, which include 20 large river basins, covering 68% of the total drainage area, including the Jaffna peninsula.
The analysis in this paper shows that the hotspots require various investment, technical, and policy interventions for addressing vulnerability to water and agricultural risks. IWMI has conducted extensive discussions with farmers, policymakers, and development partners to identify various interventions to reduce water and agricultural risks (IWMI, 2017). These interventions range from national to local level interventions. The vulnerability hotspots however require a different bundle of interventions to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience.
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