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Can agricultural insurance play a protective role? Evidence from China’s agriculture

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Agricultural insurance plays a critical role in promoting the agricultural economy. However, the precise influence of agricultural insurance on diverse facets of agricultural economy development remains under explored. This study empirically analyses the
Wensheng Wang, Yehong Zhong
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Strategic interactions and market equilibrium in China's agricultural catastrophic insurance

Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON)
In China's agricultural catastrophe insurance market, issues of non-equilibrium are prominent. To understand the causes of non-equilibrium in agricultural catastrophe insurance and to develop prevention strategies, this study employs an Evolutionary Game
Xiaolan Wang, Xinli Wang, Jundi Liu, Jing Wang   +3 more
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the Challenges of Agricultural Crop Insurance among Microcredits: A Case Study of Sarjam Dehestan, Mashhad [PDF]

کاوش‌های جغرافیایی مناطق بیابانی, 2019
The natural, social, economic and personal risks of agricultural production are inevitable, but those risks are manageable. To manage the risks of natural disasters and incidents, producers and economic policymakers in different societies use different ...
Maryam Ghasemi, Lida Alizadeh
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Affecting Agricultural Insurance Acceptability of Paddy Farmers in East Java, Indonesia

Jurnal Manajemen & Agribisnis, 2018
Risk and uncertainty in rice farming create more possibility for farmers to lose their profit, which results in the vulnerability of continuing their farming.
Sujarwo Sujarwo, Sapto Mei Novita Rukmi
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Insurance and Bounded Rationality [PDF]

Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, 2017
Bounded rationality influences the individuals making decisions. Rationality of decisions is limited by the complexity of the decision problem, the cognitive limitations of decision makers, and the time available to make the decision. One specific case of this situation is decision on the agricultural insurance.
J. Křečková, H. Brožová
openaire   +1 more source

Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Azzeddine Azzam, Binod Khanal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does agricultural insurance affect agricultural economic resilience? Evidence from 167 prefecture-level cities in major grain-producing regions

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Agricultural insurance serves as a critical arrangement for addressing extreme weather shocks and improving the agricultural risk management system.
Shuang Fu, Wen-zhong Li
doaj   +1 more source