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Course: Assessing risk in agriculture

Agricultural risk management and resilience

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author DPSC

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This fact sheet presents this e-learning course: Risk assessments are prepared to develop a holistic risk management strategy. Assessing risks involves knowing how likely it is that each possible risk would occur, and what is their expected impact in terms of farm production or income losses. This course will look at what is needed to assess and prioritize risks including assessment methods - qualitative and quantitative - used at micro, meso and macro levels.

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