Chapter 15: Agricultural Risk Management and Climate Change: What Role for Policy?

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted an ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger among its core targets. Together with other significant global conferences and agreements in 2015, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, it implies the need of a more dynamic approach to agricultural development and policy-making to transform agriculture into a more dynamic and adaptive sector…