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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing the structure of agricultural production with account of hail forecasts

Наука. Инновации. Технологии
Hazardous weather phenomena cause enormous damage to the entire national economy. Hail storms, heavy rains, frosts, droughts, sand and dust storms are detrimental to agriculture.
L. T. Sozaeva, A. Kh. Kagermazov
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimize Before You Synthesize—Enhancing the Ionic Conductivity of Li7SiPS8 Using Bayesian Optimization

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Bayesian optimization was used to optimize the synthesis parameters of the solid electrolyte Li7SiPS8$\mathrm {Li}_7\mathrm {SiPS}_8$ in order to increase the ionic conductivity. After only 32 iterations, the ionic conductivity was successfully increased from 2 to 7 mS cm−1$\mathrm {cm}^{-1}$ at 25∘C$^\circ\mathrm {C}$, while synthesis temperature and ...
Lucas G. Balzat, Robert Calaminus, Yinghan Zhao, Kristina Gjorgjevikj, Igor Moudrakovski, Simon Krause, Arnd Koeppe, Britta Nestler, Bettina V. Lotsch   +8 more
wiley   +2 more sources

The impact of hail storms on the agricultural economy of Cyprus and their characteristics [PDF]

Advances in Geosciences, 2009
The contemporary economy of Cyprus is mostly based on services; agriculture was by tradition a strong contributor to the economy of the island, but nowadays its contribution is rather limited.
K. A. Nicolaides, G. Photiou, K. Savvidou, A. Orphanou, S. C. Michaelides, T. S. Karakostas, D. Charalambous, C. Kannaouros   +7 more
doaj  

An open-source radar-based hail damage model for buildings and cars [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Severe hailstorms result in substantial damage to buildings and vehicles, necessitating the quantification of associated risks. Here, we present a novel open-source hail damage model for buildings and cars based on single-polarization radar data and 250 ...
T. Schmid, T. Schmid, R. Portmann, L. Villiger, L. Villiger, K. Schröer, D. N. Bresch, D. N. Bresch   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitivity of modeled hail accretion rates on the lower boundary of the hail spectrum

Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1996
The sensitivity of modeled hail accretion rates on the lower boundary of the hail size spectrum is investigated. Two different expressions for hail terminal velocity are considered: New hail accretion rates consider only hail size particles greater or ...
Mladjen Ćurić, D. Janc
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Challenges and enablers in fluidization technology

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Gas–solid fluidized beds provide excellent heat and mass transfer for high‐throughput operations from coating to catalytic conversion and underpin emerging low‐carbon technologies. Yet industrial reliability, scale‐up, and control lag scientific understanding, particularly as finer, stickier, and more variable feedstocks increasingly challenge
J. Ruud van Ommen, Jia Wei Chew
wiley   +1 more source