The management of risks is one of the great challenges for farmers in the 21st century and it is crucial for the development of agriculture across the world. Indeed, appropriate risk management tools are one of the fundamental ways to improve livelihoods in rural areas and help deal with the variety of risks that farmers have to face. Risk management has become one of the priorities in the current IFAP work program and an IFAP working group has been created on the topic.

 

IFAP has released an Issue Brief on Risk Management. This document explains why risk management is important for farmers and proposes a working framework for policy discussion.

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