Building the resilience of the United States’ agricultural sector to extreme floods

Building the resilience of Turkey’s agricultural sector to droughts

“…As insurance take-up widens, other risk management strategies including crop diversification, and adaptation through conversion to water-frugal crops should continue to be part of the sector's portfolio of instruments for long-term resilience. Evidence from countries where recourse to insurance is widespread points to the potential for riskier behaviour at the expense of long-term resilience 53 and hence to the need to take this risk into account when designing insurance support measures.…”

“…However, droughts have an outsized impact on the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populationssubsistence farmers and the rural poorgiven their limited capacity to manage risk (UNDP, 2011 [72]). At the 53 Subsidised insurance has been found to weaken incentives to adopt farm-level risk management practices (Schoengold, Ding and Headlee, 2015 [85]), to increase irrigation water withdrawals (Deryugina and Konar, 2017 [86]), and to discourage the long-term farm-level adaptation to changing climate (Annan and Schlenker, 2015 [86], Chen and Dall'Erba, 2018[87] (Ignaciuk, 2015[73]). Innovation and research into drought-tolerant crops are discouraged (Miao, 2020[87]).…”