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Upcoming Event
Third Annual Symposium for Facilitating the Development of
Agriculture Insurance in the Americas
Climate variability increases agricultural risks such as droughts, floods and new/re-emerging diseases. These and other impacts can reduce harvest production and quality and negatively affect national and household assets, increase hunger and poverty and spur civil instability. Agricultural insurance is an essential risk management tool that can help respond to natural disasters, restore lost assets and create a sustainable agricultural sector. However, many countries still do not sufficiently understand the value of such insurance. Therefore many have not yet taken the necessary initial steps to create a commercial, legal and political environment that will encourage more risk management focused private-public partnerships to directly benefit its farmers.
To help address these important issues, and others, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) will host its ‘Third Annual Symposium for Facilitating the Development of Agriculture Insurance in the Americas’ on February 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. This event is a follow up of a workshop organized by the IICA Office in 2011 in which experts in the international community continued important discussions regarding the state of agriculture insurance regionally, successes and challenges in implementing agricultural insurance in the region and ways to improve collaboration.
The purpose of the 3rd Symposium is to continue the development of adequate agricultural insurance schemes and products Latin America and the Caribbean within a more holistic risk management framework and expand the focus this year on more effectively engaging the private sector, particularly insurers and reinsurers.
View Agenda
For more information please contact: knanlal@iicawash.org |
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