This blog provides a comprehensive review of the available natural hazard tools and databases for disaster risk monitoring, mitigation, and analysis in South Africa. It aims to offer valuable insights into the current landscape of disaster risk management in South Africa.
The 2017 Agriculture Census is a country-wide census of commercial agriculture, which provides financial performance data of all farmers registered for value-added tax (VAT) and the production performance of all farmers who responded to the census. The census includes variables such as, inter alia, the type of farm ownership, agricultural income and expenditure, production land, agricultural products (i.e. crops and animals), agricultural losses, employees’ remuneration, and some demographic information about farm operators.
South Africa is at risk from a wide range of natural and technological hazards that can lead to disasters such as droughts, floods, major fires, tornadoes, major oil spills and even earthquakes.