These in turn are divorced from the less common initiatives to counter economic and geopolitical risk. Again, the focus is on large drought, locust invasion and animal disease shocks, with priority placed on food and nutrition security as the overall objective of risk management. Undeniably, these are the critical issues affecting those most vulnerable to disaster, however this prioritisation, at the expense of other risks and risk management approaches, means that flooding, human epidemics (and pandemics) and other (non-negligible) economic and geopolitical risks are inadequately addressed or are siloed from the predominant drought risk management programming in Niger. The disproportional focus on using shorter-term instruments at the expense of longer-term development (as outlined in Section 4.1) is replicated in risk management programming, reinforced by the prioritisation of food and nutrition security and preparedness, traditionally led by humanitarian actors.