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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

Intercomparison case study of data-driven reconstructions of a cloud-obscured Saharan dust plume in Europe. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kanngießer F, Fiedler S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Hour-Specific Hybrid DNN-SVR Framework for National-Scale Short-Term Load Forecasting. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Čeperić E, Lenac K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction. [PDF]

Sci Data
Roy S, Hegde DV, Schmude J, Lal R, Gaur V, Lin A, Mandal K, Singh T, Muñoz-Jaramillo A, Yang K, Pandey C, Hong J, Aydin B, McGranaghan R, Kasapis S, Upendran V, Bahauddin S, da Silva D, Freitag M, Gurung I, Pogorelov N, Watson C, Maskey M, Bernabe-Moreno J, Ramachandran R.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana, Linda Arata, Margherita Muzzillo, Paolo Sckokai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data fusion-based traffic prediction and software decision support for recreational suburban roads. [PDF]

PLoS One
Afandizadeh S, Abdolahi S, Mirzahossein H.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
wiley   +1 more source

Attention-Enhanced CNN-LSTM with Spatial Downscaling for Day-Ahead Photovoltaic Power Forecasting. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Peng F, Tang X, Xiao M.
europepmc   +1 more source