According to Méndez, this has reduced vulnerability to drought by 70% – no small benefit considering a dry year used to cost the country nearly 2% of GDP.
Last year, police and partners reduced vulnerability in nearly 1,000 cases.
Moody's Investors Service raised Mexico's foreign currency ratings, citing its reduced vulnerability to external shocks.
They have invested in systems and structures that have reduced vulnerability over time.
The twin-track approach can be used as a framework for reducing vulnerability to food insecurity in the face of natural disaster threats.
Acceptance by communities of the 'normalcy' of transnational migrant families and for transnational parenting may act as a determinant to reduce vulnerability and enable resiliency of the left-behind child [ 46].
The aim is to continue to restore soils and increase production in El Salvador with a view to reducing vulnerability and increasing food security and nutrition of the population through sustainable land management.
Numbers can mean a lot to reduce vulnerability.
In the nearby Lempa River Basin, social capital was regarded by (Bankoff et al. 2013: 82) as a major factor in "reducing vulnerability and an unavoidable starting point for risk reduction".
The DPSIR model was used to determine a management strategy to reduce vulnerability of ecosystem services in response to drivers, pressures, states and impacts indicated by modelling.
