Risks in agriculture: types of challenges that farmers face

Farmers nowadays face multiple risks, so read the following article to explore all the potential challenges someone should consider before starting his own agribusiness. Weather Risks:  The weather conditions are […]

Agricultural Insurance - A Financial Tool for Farmers to Offset and Manage Risk

Agricultural Insurance – A Financial Tool for Farmers to Offset and Manage Risk

Agricultural insurance focuses mainly on 4 key lines of agricultural production: crops, forestry, livestock/bloodstock (high value animals such as thoroughbreds), and aquaculture (also known as fish farming). It can also […]

Insurance - A Financial Tool to Offset and Manage Risk

Insurance – A Financial Tool to Offset and Manage Risk

Insurance is a financial risk transfer mechanism based on the principle of an Insurer (or risk carrier, to whom the Insured transfers part or the totality of a risk – […]

Risk Management Approaches in Agriculture

Risk Management Approaches in Agriculture

Farmers may reduce the impact of a hypothetical future sudden, accidental, and unforeseen shock by systematically identifying, analyzing, and controlling production, operational, market/price, financial, technology, regulatory, infrastructure, and human or […]

Agriculture and Risk

Agriculture and Risk

Introduction Around 10.000 years ago man started progressively transitioning from widespread hunter-gathering nomadism to fixed settlements in many regions of the world1. Controlling where, how, and when to secure regular […]