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FEASIBILITY OF INCOME INSURANCE IN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE [PDF]
Liberalization of agricultural markets leads to new risks for European farmers. This paper studies the feasibility of income insurance schemes for European crop and livestock farmers.
Huirne, Ruud B.M. +1 more
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INSURANCE INSTRUMENTS PROMOTE AGRICULTURAL CULTIVATION
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2018 Agriculture is one of the basic human activities. To operate this affects many factors. One of the most important risks in agricultural activity is the climate and weather conditions. Drought in recent years, negatively affect the results. On the market there are a number of insurance instruments that allow for the significant reduction of the negative
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang +2 more
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Trends in the Development of the Agricultural Insurance Market in Ukraine [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2016 The aim of the article is to identify the promising directions in reforming the agricultural insurance market on the basis of studying its current state and consideration of the major development problems. The article analyzes the current state of the
Tatarina Tetyana V.
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WEATHER DERIVATIVES AND SPECIFIC EVENT RISK [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationship between weather events and agricultural risks. Specific event risks are defined by outcomes related to a specific event such as low temperature and rainfall. Using Ontario data this paper describes specific events
Turvey, Calum G.
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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture
, 2011 This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank. It is deliberately not a collation of case studies, but rather a practical overview of the subject. The purpose of this paper is to introduce task managers and development professionals, who are not ...
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Risk of Financing Agriculture in the North-Eastern Hill Region of India with Special Reference to Meghalaya [PDF]
The study pertains to the economic issues of risk and uncertainties associated with financing hill agriculture from the twin angles of risk of farmers to utilize the credit and of bankers to disburse the agricultural loan. The issues discussed are: first,
Datta, K.K. +3 more
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Agricultural Insurance Schemes II
, 2008 Index insurances, diversely from traditional agricultural insurances, do not refer to the actual farm losses but to the losses evaluated from an index. The study evaluates the feasibility of index insurances for EU and makes a cross-validation based on the yield loss risk calculated from FADN data.
BIELZA DIAZ-CANEJA Maria +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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