The submission recommends the following:
Increase responsiveness and equity in Business Risk Management (BRM) programming to strengthen core programs and disaster frameworks, while enabling alternative service delivery, including through the private sector.
A strengthened and responsive BRM suite is essential to enhancing farm-level resilience, and access to these programs should not be conditional upon compliance with environmental performance requirements.
Key actions include:
- Maintaining core BRM programming and improving responsiveness, including enhancements to AgriStability coverage and compensation rates, increasing caps, and improving the effectiveness and timeliness of support.
- Addressing gaps in existing insurance programming, including forage insurance, national livestock price insurance, and coverage for year-round and controlled environment agriculture.
- Introducing greater flexibility in program design and delivery, including enhanced regional flexibility, by expanding the existing suite through additional private, public, and partnership-based tools.
- Ensuring risk management programming is calibrated to emerging risks through a more responsive and predictable disaster framework that accommodates geopolitical disruptions and disease events, while supporting both disaster response and proactive resilience-building measures that reduce long-term risk exposure.