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Surviving Disasters Through Risk Management Preparation and Best Practices
Nelson Brownlee
Summary
Small-scale producers need the ability to deal with risks that come with natural and man-made disasters. To assist small farmers with this challenge, North Carolina Cooperative Extension conducted a series of Risk Management Workshops for farmers in Eastern North Carolina. The project was funded by Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension. The goal of each workshop was to assist small and underserved farmers in Eastern North Carolina respond to risk by developing their own personal disaster risk management plans. Applied education consisting of two sequential workshops in Durham and Lumberton supplemented by homework assignments and individualized counseling was delivered by local educators. The primary outcome was for participants to develop the skills and to understand their own operations well enough to establish a written goal for each of the five areas of risk specific to their farm, (production, financial, marketing, legal, human) delineate for each goal at least three specific actions to reach those goals, and commit to follow through and implement their personal disaster risk management plan. There were 30 participants who attend at least one of the workshops. Evaluations conducted after the second workshops showed that participants felt that the workshops were very successful and they fulfilled their reason for attending. Currently they are working on developing their personal disaster risk management plans. With these tools local farmers can build the confidence they need to deal with future disasters.
Details
| Conference | 2026 Extension Risk Management Education National Conference |
| Presentation Type | Poster |