Acronyms

ADB

Asian Development Bank

AADMER

ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

APTERR

ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve

CRED

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

DDPM

Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

DMH

Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology

DRM

Disaster risk management

DRR

Disaster risk reduction

EM-DAT

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' emergency events data base

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FCRI

Viet Nam Field Crops Research Institute

ha

Hectare

GDP

Gross domestic product

IPCC

International Panel on Climate Change

MoAC

Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives

MOALI

Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation

MADB

Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank

MARD

Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

MAPDRR

Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction

NDRRMC

Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council

NLUA

Philippines National Land Use Act

PAGASA

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

PDNA

Post-Disaster Needs Assessment

RIMES

Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia

UN

United Nations