The device of risk management to be effective, must rely on several instruments. Some private nature (insurance, futures markets…), other professional or public (cooperation, safety nets…). There is no universal solution. Each production sector-based risk they are exposed and the economic and social – must have its array of instruments for risk management. This need for diversity does not define a global framework. But that framework must be flexible enough to adapt to the diversity of agriculture. .
Cover part of the insurance premium and / or takes over all or part of the reinsurance system. – The transfer and sharing of risk between the actors of food chains (contracting, cooperation, integration…) can not be fair without a competition policy worthy of the name. Obviously the government. The government intervention is necessary. It is even legitimate for two reasons that we must never lose sight of national solidarity in the face of natural events that affect farmers more than any other social category, and the need to preserve producers, guarantee food security (quantity and quality) and key players from rural quality. If multifunctionality is a concept invented and defended by the Europeans, all countries practiced to some degree or another.