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The role of non-farm income and employment support in farmers’ decisions on crop insurance
Agricultural and Resource EconomicsPurpose. 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 +3 more
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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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Crop Revenue and Yield Insurance Demand: A Subjective Probability Approach [PDF]
A multinomial logit is utilized to model the choice of whether to purchase yield or revenue insurance using subjectively elicited survey data. Our results indicate that the demand for crop insurance is inelastic (-0.40), consistent with most earlier ...
Coble, Keith H. +4 more
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Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Crop Index Insurance Products [PDF]
Index crop insurance products can eliminate the asymmetric information problem inherent in farm-level multiple peril crop insurance. Purchasers of index insurance products are, however, exposed to basis risk.
Hoogenboom, Gerrit +4 more
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki +6 more
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The role of premium subsidies in crop insurance. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Mavroutsikos C, Giannakas K, Walters C.
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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance [PDF]
The federal government has developed a large number of programs to insure various “specialty crops” over the last two decades; a given program is peculiar to a particular county and crop.
Ethan Ligon
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
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Demand for Crop Insurance in Developing Countries: New Evidence from India. [PDF]
J Agric Econ, 2021 Ghosh RK, Gupta S, Singh V, Ward PS.
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