Natural disasters can have profound negative impacts on food supply chains, and in nations whose economies heavily depend on agriculture, the impact can be devastating. Damage from natural disasters not only affects a food producer’s current growing season, but can also cause long-term damage to soils, perennial crops, equipment and infrastructure. Poor nations suffer the most from natural disasters, in part because they often depend on high-risk, low return livelihood systems, such as rainfed agriculture (Sivakumar, 2005a). To make matters worse, the rate of occurrence and the severity of natural disasters have increased significantly in recent years. This paper seeks to determine to what extent established food supply chain disaster mitigation strategies support environmentally sustainable practices.