Summer school

Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture: updates on modelling and applications

Lecturers:
Miranda Meuwissen - Business Economics, Wageningen University
Yann de Mey - Business Economics, Wageningen University
Fabio Santeramo - Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente, Foggia University, Italy
Barry Goodwin - Agricultural and Resource Economics, NC State University, US
Simone Severini - Department DAFNE, Tuscia University, Italy

Organised by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS)
Date

Mon 21 August 2017 until Fri 25 August 2017

Venue Leeuwenborch, building number 201
Hollandseweg 1
201
6706 KN Wageningen
+31 (0)317 48 36 39

Introduction & objectives of the course

The farm sector is affected by a large and changing set of risk sources including more volatile producer prices, unusual weather patterns, upstream and downstream market power along the value chain, increasing dependence on financial institutions, and political risks. This induces the need for (new) risk management tools. Also the Common Agricultural Policy 2020 is considering risk management as an important component of agricultural policy.

Participants will learn theories concerning risk analysis and risk coping strategies and will develop proficiency with software to facilitate the initiation of their own research in topics related to risk in agriculture. The course deals with both conceptual and methodological issues.