Strengthening Agricultural Resilience in the Face of Multiple Risks
This report explores how countries can strengthen the resilience of their agricultural
sectors to multiple risks. A shifting risk landscape in agriculture – due to increasing
weather variability, natural hazards, pests and diseases, and market shocks – will
require public and private actors to consider the risk landscape over the long term,
place a greater emphasis on what can be done ex ante to reduce risk exposure and increase
preparedness, and prioritise investments that build resilience capacities both on-farm
and for the sector as a whole. This report offers a framework for applying resilience
thinking to risk management in agriculture, and explores how four OECD countries –
Australia, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands – are mainstreaming resilience into their
agricultural risk management policy frameworks.
Available from September 01, 2020