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Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture

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Online Location
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540727446
Publication date
22/05/2007
Number of Pages
504
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Books
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Climate / Weather / Environment
Type of Risk:
Weather & Climate related
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk coping
Risk reduction/mitigation
Commodity:
Crops
Other
Author
Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Raymond P. Motha
Organization
World Meteorological Organization

This book is of interest to organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture as is a reference for anyone in the business of minimizing risks to agricultural production. In many parts of the world, weather and climate are some of the biggest production risks and uncertainty factors impacting agricultural systems performance and management. Both structural and non-structural measures can be used to reduce the impacts of the variability (including extremes) of climate resources on crop production. While the structural measures include strategies such as irrigation, water harvesting, windbreaks etc., the non-structural measures include use of seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasts, improved application of medium-range weather forecasts and crop insurance.