Improving weather and climate related risk assessments in agricultural production: Multiple cropping

Abstract

Climate and weather related risk assessments are deep looks at what can go wrong in farming due to the (changing) environment. After such an analysis it has to be decided with what accessible ways and means to minimize the potential threats of that (changing) environment to crop production. Garcia et al. in Andre et al. (2010) stated that agricultural planning - strategic and tactical - needs to appreciate climate-related and other risks to attain the producer's goals and to spell out the sort of information that farmers need to aid their planning: climate, technical/managerial, market. A key aspect needed in linking climate and weather risk to agricultural planning is to appreciate the overall management system in question from the decisionmakers viewpoint (Andre et al. 2010). It is clear that in multiple cropping this has its own specific set of aspects to target. We are again forced to deal with the subject in a generic way and to indicate where multiple cropping aspects need particular attention. See particularly for models and decision making also Box III.3.21 © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.