specifically with income risk. They exist against a general background of widespread government intervention that modifies the … role of public policy versus market-based mechanisms to deal with income risk in agriculture. The OECD workshop examined …

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 …

The sources of risk in agriculture are numerous and diverse, ranging from events related to climate and weather … to manage risk. A holistic approach is thus necessary. This book examines the current magnitude and characteristics of … risk-related policies in agriculture and what is known about the quantitative size of agricultural risks. It looks at the …

This book examines the implications of risk management for policy in agriculture. Opening with a chapter on risk … management principles and guidelines for policy design in agriculture, the book goes on to look at quantitative analysis of risk …

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 …

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 …