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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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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 +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa +2 more
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Evaluating Producer Welfare Benefits of Whole-Farm Revenue Insurance
AgricultureAgricultural 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 +3 more
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DESIGNING OPTIMAL CROP REVENUE INSURANCE [PDF]
The optimal crop revenue insurance contract is designed from recent developments in the theory of insurance economics under incomplete markets. The message is two-fold. Firstly, when the indemnity schedule is contingent on individual price and individual
Wright, Brian D., Mahul, Olivier
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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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 +2 more
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Effects of Insurance on Farmer Crop Abandonment [PDF]
Empirical evidence for the existence of moral hazard in the U.S. crop insurance program has been inconclusive. Here, we seek empirical evidence of moral hazard in the U.S. crop insurance program, departing from the established empirical literature in two
Chen, Shu-Ling, Miranda, Mario J.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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