FARMD Training Webinar: Overview of the Technical Training Program "Agriculture Sector Risk Assessment"

On November 5th, 2015, Åsa Giertz, Agricultural Specialist with the World Bank's Agricultural Risk Management Team, gave an overview of the Technical Training Program on "Agriculture Sector Risk Assessment" and answered questions during a one-hour long webinar presentation.

 

 

 

 

 

>>Download the PPT of the Training Webinar Presentation on the different modules

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About the Speakers

Åsa Giertz

Agriculture Specialist, Agricultural Risk Management Team, World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice 

Ms. Åsa Giertz is an Agriculture Specialist at the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice where she works with the Agricultural Risk Management Team.  She has led risk management work in Africa, Asia, and Central Asia, and supported countries in identifying systemic risks and risk management mechanisms for their agriculture sectors. 

Ms. Giertz has worked with agricultural development in the World Bank for the past nine years, in the Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Central and South Asia regions. Her main focus is agricultural policy and she has contributed to numerous World Bank publications, including the 2013 flagship report Growing Africa: Unlocking the Potential for Agribusiness, as well as supported a wide range of World Bank financed investment projects.

Before joining the World Bank, Ms. Giertz worked for two years for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unite Nations (FAO) in Rome, and before that for the Swedish Private Sector and for the Swedish Ministry of the Environment. Ms. Giertz has a M.Sc. in Macro and Development Economics from the Stockholm University and a M.Sc. in Food and Nutrition Policy from City University London.

About the Technical Training Program "Agriculture Sector Risk Assessment" 

The World Bank, through its Agricultural Risk Management Team, has developed a methodology for assessing risk and subsequently conducted risk assessments in nearly 20 countries. The World Bank has synthesized its experience and developed a technical training program on agricultural sector risk assessment to allow practitioners around the world apply this methodology and integrate it in general agricultural policy work. The program was originally introduced as a two-day training in Johannesburg, South Africa, in May 2015.

The program includes core principles for assessing agricultural risks, as well as current state-of-the-art practices in risk assessment and management. The hope is that development practitioners will acquire the skillset to better analyze the agricultural sector, the tools for qualitative and quantitative assessment and for prioritizing mechanisms, and the ability to understand and manage risk more systematically and strategically.

Target Audience:  

This technical training is geared towards policy makers and development practitioners who are involved in designing and implementing agricultural programs and policies. In particular, technical staff from Ministries of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries or Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning who are engaged in agricultural policy, planning, management, and monitoring might specially benefit from this training.    

Objectives: 

The prevalence and complexity of multiple risks facing agriculture systems and the failure to address them on an ex-ante and integrated basis, continues to leave countries and their agricultural sector exposed to these risks. The apparent increase in frequency of commodity price volatility and crop failures, added to concerns over climate change and food security, have increased global interest in agricultural risk management. Considering that governments, especially in lower income and agricultural dependent countries, are vulnerable to agricultural risks, there is a clear need to better understand and assess these risks and associated vulnerabilities. By knowing the frequency and impacts of existing risks to the sector, the private and public sectors can better manage these risks and limit their impacts.

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