The management of animal disease outbreaks can be helped by creating special public-private funds to provide compensation for direct losses from emergency actions, thus increasing the incentive for producers to report a disease outbreak. Catastrophic risks in Kazakhstan also require government efforts to create sound systems for biosecurity and for the prevention and control of natural disasters. There are risks which fall between normal and catastrophic risks and for which risk-sharing arrangements can be developed, such as commercial insurance, forward contracting, or cooperative supply management and pricing schemes. The role of the government would be to encourage the private risk management arrangements through appropriate regulations and surveillance.