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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

Volatility analysis and forecasting of vegetable prices using an ARMA‐GARCH model: An application of the CF filter and seasonal adjustment method to Korean green onions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The vegetable market experiences significant price fluctuations due to the complex interplay of trend, cyclical, seasonal, and irregular factors. This study takes Korean green onions as an example and employs the Christiano–Fitzgerald filter and the CensusX‐13 seasonal adjustment methods to decompose its price into four components: trend ...
Yiyang Qiao, Byeong‐il Ahn
wiley   +1 more source

FLOOD REINSURANCE PREMIUM PRICING BASED ON THE STANDARD DEVIATION PRINCIPLE WITH POT-BASED THRESHOLDS FOR MORTALITY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE RISKS

Barekeng
Disasters that occur in Indonesia lead to financial loss. One approach to mitigating the financial impact is through the utilization of natural disaster insurance.
Vanessa Anggriawan, Ferry Jaya Permana, Benny Yong   +2 more
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IMMERSIVE SIMULATION OF NATURAL HAZARDS FOR ENHANCED PUBLIC AWARENESS AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

Coastal Engineering Proceedings
Virtual reality (VR) has become a transformative force in understanding and responding to natural disasters. The TsuRuni project is at the forefront of this innovation, offering a virtual reality experience that simulates natural hazards, such as tsunamis and flooding, with unprecedented realism and interactivity. By leveraging Unreal Engine and WebGPU
Behzad Ebrahimi, Patrick Lynett
openaire   +1 more source

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, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote sensing utility in a disaster struck urban environment [PDF]

Six major public health areas which might be affected by a natural disaster were identified. The functions and tasks associated with each area following a disaster, potential ways remote sensing could aid these functions, and the baseline data which ...
Holguin, A., Rush, M.
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Simulation of natural disaster response on tangible geographic information systems

Περίληψη: Στις μέρες μας, οι φυσικές καταστροφές παρουσιάζονται σε καθημερινή βάση και συνήθως απαιτείται άμεση ανθρώπινη επέμβαση, ώστε να αποφευχθούν περαιτέρω ζημιές ή ανθρώπινες απώλειες. Στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις, οι συνθήκες σε ένα τέτοιο συμβάν μπορεί να είναι απρόβλεπτες ή μπορεί να αλλάζουν με υπερβολικά γρήγορους ρυθμούς, λόγω παραγόντων ...
Μπρελλας Ιωαννης http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ibrellas, Brellas Ioannis http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ibrellas   +1 more
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Bona Fide Intersegmental Plane Hepatectomy Along the Glissonean Branches (BIPHG)

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review traces the author's personal journey over three decades in the evolution of liver resection techniques, culminating in the proposal of the Bona Fide Intersegmental Plane Hepatectomy Along Glissonean Branches (BIPHG). Beginning with pioneering experiences in laparoscopic and robotic liver surgeries, the author highlights key ...
Go Wakabayashi, Taiga Wakabayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Visualization Methods for Simulation-based Natural Disaster Risk Assessments of Road Networks

, 2017
Infrastructure managers are in charge of ensuring that infrastructure provides an acceptable level of service to society. To evaluate whether such a level of service can be maintained in the case of natural disasters, a generic risk assessment process was developed in the INFRARISK project.
openaire   +2 more sources