Fourth, globalisation, rising income, and urbanisation call for increasing diversification and value addition in Indian agriculture. The shifts in consumption pattern warrant a shift of land and other resources to crops with higher potential for value addition. Fifth, effective linkages of production systems with marketing, agro-processing and other value added activities would play an increasingly important role in diversification of agriculture.
Such a low level of insurance penetration directly implies that the vast majority of our low income communities are vulnerable to sustain financial losses as a result of a disaster, whether this is man-made or natural. This workshop is particularly timely for us in Fiji, as we continue to undertake rehabilitation actions after the devastation of Tropical Cyclone Winston.