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Agriculture, 2023 Insurance purchase and organization participation in risk management is of great practical significance for stabilizing agricultural production and household income.
Yanyuan Zhang, Xintong Wu
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Alternative Crop Insurance Indexes [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008 Three index-based crop insurance contracts are evaluated for representative south Georgia corn farms. The insurance contracts considered are based on indexes of historical county yields, yields predicted from a cooling degree-day production model, and yields predicted from a
Deng, Xiaohui +4 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Farmers’Willingnessto Pay for Crop Insurance: Evidence from Eastern Ghana [PDF]
International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development, 2017 Crop insurance is a risk management tool with the potential of dealing with risk more efficiently. This study uses a dichotomous contingent valuation method to elicit the willingness to pay for crop insurance among cereal farmers in the Eastern ...
Emmanuella Ellis
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The optimization of Three-echelon Agricultural Supply Chain under Crop Revenue Insurance
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 As the agricultural supply chain of is vulnerability due to the dual effects of natural disaster and marketable risk, the paper deals with the optimization of agricultural supply chain by introducing the crop revenue insurance for the first time. Firstly,
Wu Juncao, Shi Qiyuan
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Crop Species Production Diversity Enhances Revenue Stability in Low-Income Farm Regions of Mexico
Agriculture, 2022 Stabilizing farm revenues is a goal of agricultural policies around the world, especially in vulnerable regions with limited access to crop insurance. One potential pathway to revenue stability follows the agricultural “insurance hypothesis”, which holds
Matthew C. LaFevor
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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
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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 +2 more
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