in principle all people and communities whose livelihood is associated with crop production should be negatively affected by these hazards however gentle and others have shown that the impacts are not uniform among people and communities while the global forest resources assessment gives detailed country data on forest employment it does not provide an estimate for the total in fact the interviews conducted by the authors of the study revealed that the number of climate hazards experienced by nepalese households was largely concentrated among the poor on average poor households experienced climate hazards over the sixyear period of the study betteroff households experienced hazards on average