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The Pillars of Contingency Planning: An Integrated Approach to Managing Risk for Farms and Agribusinesses

  • Award Amount: $50,000
  • Regional Center: North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center
  • Grant Program: 2021 Education Projects
  • Project Director: Renee Wiatt
  • Email: reneewiatt@purdue.edu
  • Organization: Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics

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Project Overview

The "Six Pillars of Farm Risk Management" online course encompassed a process to mitigate, transfer, and avoid risks in production, marketing, financial, legal, human resource, and social media. We developed an online curriculum for small farms and agribusinesses (SFAs) that incorporates all six pillars of contingency planning through online modules, recorded videos, and webinars with participants that can be delivered nationwide (with a focus on the North Central region). Each of the six pillars of contingency planning programming contained as six modules with 3-4 quizzes each, 3-4 videos each, pre- and post-quizzes for each module, and 6 webinars total that guided businesses to create contingency policies and plans. Upon the completion of the program, SFAs should have everything that they need to develop and write contingency plans and policies for each of the 6 pillars. Ultimately, contingency plans will help businesses efficiently recover from disruptions or disasters. Through this program, we prepared 90 owners, managers, and operators of SFA's for disruptions and disasters that their business and/or family will inevitably encounter.

Number of Participants: 90

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