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STORY: ROME / TSUNAMI
TRT: 3.00
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: RECENT /FILE
JUNE 2006, BANDA ACEH, SRI LANKA
1. Wide shot, aerial of capsized ship
2007, INDONESIA
2. Various shots, destruction
RECENT, ROME, ITALY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Wabbes Candotti, Operations Officer, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division FAO:
“More than 1.4 million people `lost their livelihoods. That means the way of earning their living, earning their food, earning their income. They’ve lost that independent, dignified livelihoods. They’ve lost that. And that impact has been huge. And that takes long time to recover. The international assistance has been geared up [for] maybe 5 years or so, but to be honest, the effects of such a mega disaster are probably longer.”
2007, INDONESIA
4. Med shot, fishermen taking boat to sea
5. Various shots, new boats from FAO
RECENT, ROME, ITALY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Wabbes Candotti, Operations Officer, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division FAO:
“FAO very quickly mounted a response across some of the most affected countries – in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Maldives. We received more than 70 million dollars in donations from the various donors especially to give importance to the livelihood support. Not the immediate help of food assistance or health care, these things, but more the agriculture, fishery based livelihood support. That is really the crucial role that FAO did.”
2007, INDONESIA
7. Various shots, construction
RECENT, ROME, ITALY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Wabbes Candotti, Operations Officer, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division FAO:
“What was important was the role the FAO played in terms of good technical standards, technical norms. So if are resupplying boats to the fishers who lost their boat – what sort of boats? What quality of boat? Is it really right to give back boats in the same number that was there before when the fishery resources are already depleted? Should we not look also at the technologies of fishing and try to improve it and help them to do fishing in the most sustainable way? This is what FAO did.
2007, INDONESIA
9. Various shots, group of men around new piece of machinery
RECENT, ROME, ITALY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Wabbes Candotti, Operations Officer, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division FAO:
“Those communities are not only fishing. They are part time fishers, part-time livestock holders, part-time fish farmers they have very diversified livelihoods. So you cannot just go in for one sector and being blind to another issue. You have to look at the way people are making their living.”
2007, INDONESIA
11. Med shot, workers repairing the road
12. Wide shot, truck passing by a rubble
Ten years after the world's worst natural disaster in living memory roared across the shorelines of South and Southeast Asia, countries in the region are better prepared to deal with tragedies like the tsunami, but there is still room for improvement, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.
In December 2004 the tsunami claimed the lives of more than two-hundred thousand people and left the livelihoods of some 1.4 million survivors in tatters, when it damaged or destroyed fields, fish ponds, boats, fishing gear and livestock upon which entire food production systems depended.
In many cases, entire fishing communities were obliterated - as was coastal agriculture - the tsunami's powerful waves smashed fishing boats and even tossed large trawlers far inland, set to rest where animals once grazed and rice and vegetables had grown.
Thanks to the generous contribution of its resource partners, FAO implemented a large emergency and recovery response programme to support the government of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives, Myanmar, Seychelles and Somalia.
FAO's technical expertise focused on protecting, restoring and enhancing the agriculture-fisheries-based livelihoods of the affected coastal communities. This support primarily targeted the replacement of lost assets while at the same time promoting the wise use of natural resources, helping to avoid restoring the pre-tsunami overfishing capacity in Aceh-Indonesia and in Sri-Lanka, and further depletion of the fish stock.
FAO, together with its partners, helped fishers and farmers to rebuild their livelihoods better than before, strengthening both their resilience and the local economies.
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