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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

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Value chain analysis of wheat in the case of North Shewa Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia

Sustainable Environment
In Ethiopia’s central highlands, particularly in the Siyadebirina Wayu and Moretinjiru Districts of the North Shewa zone, wheat is the most extensively grown cereal crop.
Mekonnen Aklilu Tesfaye, Yitea Seneshaw Getahun, Biruk Kemaw Shenkute, Sisay Assefa Wondimagegn, Eden Dereje Mamo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Counterfactual scenarios reveal historical impact of cropland management on soil organic carbon stocks in the United States

Scientific Reports, 2023
Natural climate solutions provide opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the United States is among a growing number of countries promoting storage of carbon in agricultural soils as part of the climate solution. Historical patterns of soil
Stephen M. Ogle, F. Jay Breidt, Stephen Del Grosso, Ram Gurung, Ernie Marx, Shannon Spencer, Stephen Williams, Dale Manning   +7 more
doaj   +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

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Waikato River Settlement and Natural Resource Management in New Zealand [PDF]

This paper examines the Waikato River Agreement in Principle by considering the implications of accommodating cultural values in natural resource management for the Waikato River and New Zealand.
Steenstra, Alex
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

La nouvelle économie des ressources et les marches de l'eau : une perspective idéologique ?

VertigO, 2004
TheNew Resource Economics perceives market allocation as a universal solution to resource depletion. The authors of this school are arguing for of a systematic implementation of private property rights concerning the allocation of renewable natural ...
Olivier Petit
doaj   +1 more source

Tsunami impacts on shallow groundwater and associated water supply on the East Coast of Sri Lanka: a post-tsunami well recovery support initiative and an assessment of groundwater salinity in three areas of Batticaloa and Ampara Districts [PDF]

Groundwater, Aquifers, Salinity, Natural disasters, Water supply, Drinking water, Wells, Rehabilitation, Mosquitoes, Disease vectors, Environmental Economics and Policy, Health Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Amalraj, N., Amerasinghe, Priyani H., Burgi, N., Indrajith, N.G., Jeyakumar, P., Lionelrathne, D.M.D.S., Panabokke, Christopher Rajendra, Pathirana, S.R.K., Prathepaan, S., Villholth, K.G., Weerasinghe, M.D., Woolley, Olivia   +11 more
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