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Evaluating Producer Welfare Benefits of Whole-Farm Revenue Insurance

Agriculture
Agricultural insurance is by far the most popular risk management tool used in Iran. Despite many years of experience, Iran’s current insurance policy has not managed to protect all producers in the sector.
Moharram Ainollahi Ahmadabadi, Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh, Ghader Dashti, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani   +3 more
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Information and Opportunistic Behavior in Federal Crop Insurance Programs [PDF]

Opportunistic behavior in crop insurance can arise due to asymmetric information between producers and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Producers who insure fields using transitional yields based on county average yields or who select options such
C. Richard Shumway, Cory G. Walters, Hayley H. Chouinard, Philip R. Wandschneider   +3 more
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Retinal Vessel Segmentation: A Comprehensive Review From Classical Methods to Deep Learning Advances (1982–2025)

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal, Jan Kubíček, Jana Bahrová, Alice Varyšová, Martin Augustýnek, Marek Penhaker, Juraj Timkovič   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking out for a better mitigation strategy: smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for drought-index crop insurance premium in the Northern Region of Ghana

Agriculture & Food Security, 2017
Background The impact of climate change and variability on livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana has become severer than ever before. As a result, crop insurance has been advocated as one of the recommended risk transfer mechanisms to ...
Stephen A. Abugri, Joseph Amikuzuno, Edward B. Daadi   +2 more
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Evaluating a Proposed Modification to Federal Crop Insurance [PDF]

A proposed modification to the Federal Crop Insurance Program would allow crop producers to simultaneously purchase both a farm-level crop insurance policy and a supplemental county-level crop insurance policy.
Barnett, Barry J., Deng, Xiaohui, Ling, Shuqiong   +2 more
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AI‐Assisted IoT‐Enabled ECG Monitoring: Integrating Foundational and Generative AI Tools for Sustainable Smart Healthcare—Recent Trends

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Lachit Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of non-farm income and employment support in farmers’ decisions on crop insurance

Agricultural and Resource Economics
Purpose. This paper explores the farmers’ non-farm income (NFI) and individual, combined and differential effects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) on crop insurance adoption in India under Pradhan Mantri Fasal ...
Saurabh Bharne, Pushpender Yadav, Sandeep Tripathi, Hariom Tiwari   +3 more
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Does Crop Insurance Influence Commercial Crop Farm Decisions to Expand? An Analysis Using Panel Data from the Census of Agriculture

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018
The Agricultural Act of 2014 increased the role of risk-mitigating policies in U.S. agricultural policy and focused attention on how crop insurance affects farm production decisions.
Christopher B. Burns, Daniel L. Prager
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Evaluating the Potential of Whole-Farm Insurance Over Crop-Specific Insurance Policies [PDF]

Since 1996, different formats of whole-farm insurance (WFI) have been launched in North America and Spain. Their rationale is to pool all farm's insurable risks into a single policy that provides cheaper coverage against the farm's revenue losses.
Bielza, Maria, Garrido, Alberto
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source