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NJF seminar 435
Risk and Crisis management in Nordic Agriculture
16-17 September 2010 Sweden |
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Nordic agriculture operates in an increasingly turbulent world with fluctuating prices of resources and products as well as uncertainty on the financial and real estate market. Furthermore contagious animal diseases, environmental legislation and extreme weather poses political and production risk for Nordic farmers.
It is in this turbulent environment that, farmers with ever more increasing capital requirements are experiencing pressure on profit performance and being exposed to increasing risk.
Many Nordic farmers are in a financialy stressful situation that could further take them into a severe crisis situation.
The role and need for effective tools and processes to manage risk and crisis situations are becoming ever more urgent.
There is an increasing need to develop effective tools and processes to manage risk and crisis situations.
The competitive farm must not only be capable to produce at low costs but also be able to calculate and manage risk.
There are available tools to manage risks, they include insurances, contracts, futures and other measures to reduce either the likelihood of a risky event or the consequences of a realized event.
So far, consultancy concerning the different risks has been fragmented and has not focused on the risks of the entire farm. Little attention has also been given to the process of managing delicate situations where farmers together with suppliers, bankers and advisers have to find ways out of liquidity scarcity or find viable exit strategies.
This seminar looks forward to harvest and interact experiences from researchers and professionals. Besides the key note lecturers, poster and paper presentations, the second day of the seminar is centered around case studies. Participants will be invited to work with actual cases on how to manage risk and crisis management in agriculture.
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The main theme of the seminar is identifying, explaining and developing managerial capacity for crisis and risk situations. The seminar focuses on providing empirical and theoretical tools and analytical methods to support decisions-making regarding risk and crisis. Main topics of the seminar:
• Actual experiences from the Nordic countries.
• Communication and advising in situations of crisis, including aspects such as the human dimension in crisis situation, handlings and negotiation with officials, banks and suppliers.
• Advances in theoretical and applied risk management in agriculture
• Other risk and crisis management issues
The second day of the seminar includes four problem-solving case studies introduced by the facilitator or/and lecturer that reflects on specific theoretical or/and research angle of the case. Preliminary topics for the case studies are:
• Mapping and managing risk to avoid loss.
• Managing production risk (in livestock production)
• Financial tools to manage price and financial risk.
• Profit now or die - assisting farmers on the edge of bankruptcy
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Dr.Magnus Ljung, Sweden, Statskonsulent, SLU
"Being human and professional - The art of extension to farmers in stressfull situations"
Dr.Poul Erik Jørgensen, Denmark , Nykredit
Mr Poul Erik is vice president of Nykredit and head of the agricultural credit section at Nykredit, the biggest kredit portfolio to danich agriculture. Nykredit has acticvly promoted the consept of farm board (gårdsråd), a system of strategic advicing coupled to the kredit process. Poul Erik is also a board member of the Food and recource economic institute at Copenhagen University. In his key note lecture Poul Erik will share the Danich experience of drastic fall in farm real estate values and how farmers and kredit institutions are takling the situation in midst of limited profit margins in the sector.
Swedish Farmer shares experiences from times of non existing profit and low liquidity.
Professor Kyösti Pietola, MTT Economic Research, Finland - "Trade for risks has been soaring -but if the market for risks fails".
www.mtt.fi/experts/kyosti_pietola
Professor Hans Andersson, SLU, Sweden. "Risk management in agribusiness"
Prof. Andersson present some theoretical fundaments of riskmanagement and current theoretical developmen in the topic.
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| The seminar is intended for researchers, advisers and suppliers of agricultural firms such as bankers, insurance workers and subsidary firms. |
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The organizers invite researchers, advisors and other persons who are interested in presenting their own work at the seminar to submit an abstract (maximum 2 pages).
The abstract should include (NJF lay-out, see below):
- the question(s) addressed,
- characterisation of method(s) used to analyse the problem
- the results obtained
- conclusion(s).
- preferred form of presentation (oral presentation or poster)
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted by June 4, 2010 to: Federico.cuellar@hush.se.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by June 25, 2010. They will be requested to upload a paper (maximum 4 pages) characterising their work to the seminar website by latest august 16, 2010.
Please use the following abstract template:
Title of presentation (in verdana 12 pt)
Name of author(s). Address and affiliation of authors. Telephone, fax and e-mail address of first author. If there is more than one address for the authors, use sub-scripts to indicate who is from which institut. (in verdana 10 pt italic) Abstract body text (in verdana 10 pt).
Preparation of posters
Each poster presentation will be allocated one display board. The dimensions of the poster are 1.2 m x 0.85 m in portrait orientation
The title of the poster and details of the author(s) must be included as part of the poster. It is recommended that details of author affiliations are kept to a minimum as affiliation and contact details will be shown in the Proceedings. Posters should be clear, simple and self-explanatory. Sub-headings (usually Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions) will often be appropriate.
Text, including axis labels and legends on tables and figures, should be no smaller than 36 point (capitals = 9 mm high; lower case = 6 mm high).
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| From Arlanda airport, take bus 801 (45 minutes) or train (20 min) to Uppsala central station. From central station to SLU/ Ultuna take bus 12, 20 & 111. (10 min) |
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Seminar fee includes lunches and refreshments.
Accomodation is made individually: Rooms have been reserved for participants at Sunnersta Herrgård. 10 minutes of walking distance from the seminar site. Contact info:
Sunnerstavägen 24
756 51 UPPSALA
tel: +4618-324220
www.sunnerstaherrgard.se
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| NJF members before 2010-08-27: 320 EUR |
| NJF members after 2010-08-27: 420 EUR |
| Others before 2010-08-27: 390 EUR |
| Others after 2010-08-27: 510 EUR |
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| The seminar will be held at Ultuna, Uppsala, Sweden. |
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- Submission of abstracts for oral presentations: 2010-06-11
- Submission of abstracts for poster presentations: 2010-06-11
- Notification of acceptance for oral and poster presentations: 2010-06-30
- Proposal for posters and papers: 2010-06-30
- Final registration: 2010-09-10
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Federico Cuellar (Swe)federico.cuellar@hush.se
Runólfur Sigursveinsson (Is)rs@bssl.is
Erland Kjesbu (Nor) Erland.Kjesbu@nilf.fmst.no
Torben Ulf Larsen (De)tul@landscentret.dk
Jarkko Niemi (Fin)jarkko.niemi@mtt.fi
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Federico Cuellar, Hushållningssällskapet Rådgivning Nord AB / Rural Business Development Ltd.
Köpmangatan 2,
972 38 Luleå, Sweden.
Phone: +46-920 244180
Fax: +46-920 244190
E-mail: federico.cuellar@hush.se
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