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Plenary 6 – Facilitating Agricultural Commodity Price and Weather Risk Management: Policy Options and Practical Instruments
Topic : Risk Management
In this presentation Alexander Sarris, Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO, looks at the following issues:
- Agricultural productivity and credit
- Constraints to expanding intermediate input use in agriculture
- Risks faced by rural households
- Vulnerability and consumption smoothing
- The demand for commodity price insurance
- The demand for weather insurance
- Operationalizing the use of price and weather insurance
- Resource type Document
- Author Sarris, A.
- OrganisationFAO
- Year of Publication2007
- RegionGlobal
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages36 pp.
- Keywords Risk Management