From Managing Risk to Building Resilience: Farms, Communities, and Conservation
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 1pm-4pm
Supporting a thriving farm economy and resilient farms, farm families, and rural communities is essential to restoring and sustaining a healthy Bay watershed. This session will help the region’s agricultural conservation practitioners better understand the complex risks and stressors faced by the region’s diverse farming communities, proven approaches to assessing and measuring risk and farm resilience, and efforts underway to pair conservation, risk management, and resilience at the farm and community scale. The session will include:
• Emerging, multidisciplinary frameworks for understanding and addressing the varied aspects of farm and farm family risk management and resilience;
• Insights from lenders and extension specialists on assessing farm financial and operational risks and the indicators of healthy agricultural enterprises; and;
• Case studies and discussion on how conservation factors into farm risk management and resilience and opportunities for conservationists to partner with the farmer support network.