Rapid and Integrated Agriculture Risk Management Review for Brazil : Towards an Integrated Vision
The agriculture sector of Brazil faces a large number of risks linked to the productive process, which has led to substantial losses to the country in the past years. An adequate and integrated management of those risks can leave farmer incomes les...
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World Bank, Brasilia
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/914951562828945392/Rapid-and-Integrated-Agriculture-Risk-Management-Review-for-Brazil-Towards-an-Integrated-Vision http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32205 |
| Summary: | The agriculture sector of Brazil faces a
large number of risks linked to the productive process,
which has led to substantial losses to the country in the
past years. An adequate and integrated management of those
risks can leave farmer incomes less exposed to losses,
benefiting the sector and the country as a whole. Therefore,
given the always-present resource limitation, it is
important to maximize the economic returns of agriculture
risk management actions. Brazil built important agriculture
risk management policies and programs, but there are several
signs that it is possible to improve their efficiency of
effectiveness with more coordination and a prioritization in
the treatment of gaps and opportunities. The objective of
this work was to undertake a rapid and integrated review of
agriculture risk management in Brazil, identifying gaps and
opportunities for improving current public policies and
programs at the federal level in the short and long term.
Beyond potential improvements in specific agriculture risk
management policies and programs, an improved coordination
and integration of current tools can reduce the risk profile
of the sector. In this context, the World Bank, Brazilian
Agriculture Research Company (Embrapa ) and Ministry of
Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) put forward a rapid
and integrated review of agriculture risk management in
Brazil. This rapid review suggests that actions that seek
the implementation of an integrated agriculture risk
management vision are supported by society at large and by
the public sector’s interest. Finally, planning requires the
need for a stable institutional framework, which calls for a
national plan and an agriculture law, with at least a
five-year horizon and that must consider not only the
agriculture risk management issues, but also rural
development ones. |
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