, either explicit (risk management) or implicit (safety net and containment of both the central and state governments … insurance scheme based on the premise that insurance is a cost effective risk management techniques. They also provide some new …

Assistance Program for the Caribbean 'market-based agriculture risk management in the Caribbean.' The program is largely financed … various options from current available financial risk transfer instruments for addressing crop weather risks for small farmers … weather risk management; fourth section contains the elements of public policy and investments to support market development …

has developed an Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) framework that assesses risks in systemic production, markets, and … of risk management measures so that scarce resources can be allocated where they have the most impact. It also helps … collaboration. There is a need to build layered approaches to manage risk that combine risk-mitigating, risk-transfer, and risk …

This report seeks to further the body of disaster risk management (DRM) knowledge in Santa Catarina by identifying …

The objective of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating a gender dimension into Agricultural Sector Risk … Assessments (ASRAs). The focus is on the approach because both agricultural risk and gender issues are contextual, thus the … outcomes of a gender-based risk assessment are highly dependent on the social, cultural, geo-graphic, and economic contexts of …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …