In addition, there was also an estimated humanitarian cost of FJ $5 million. Such costs could have been reduced, the report argues, had attention been given to the maintenance of some of natural ecosystem services, particularly by maintaining farm drains and drainage systems in the mangrove reclaimed land and on hilly lands. Other issues analyzed include poverty implication of the floods on the flood affected sugarcane farmers, the effect of government's macroeconomic policy and the state industry health.

• https://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/oceania/oceania_resources_and_publications/?3988/Economic-Costs-of-the-2009-Floods-in-the-Fiji-Sugar-Belt-and-Policy-Implications