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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

Social impact of a small-scale sporting event: the case of GIMNASTRADA 2019 in a world Heritage city. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Luis-Del Campo V, Muñoz-Jiménez J, Jiménez-Naranjo HV, León-Guzmán KF.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coupling coordination degree between residents' livelihoods and ecological resilience in the Wuling Mountain area. [PDF]

iScience
Wu J, Wang K, He L, Chen B, Liu S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

A machine learning algorithm to explore the impact of agricultural land-use types on CO2 emissions in Vietnam in the period 1990-2019. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nguyen AT, Nguyen TA, Tran TH, Doan XT, Trinh Phuong N, Thi TT, Le NA, Do Thi T, Le Huyen T.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner, Savannah Jones, Tania Islam, K. Aleks Schaefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parks and Older People's Sense of Community: Examining the Role of Urban Parks in Supporting Sustainable Development Goal 3 in Brisbane, Australia. [PDF]

Australas J Ageing
Hassankhani M, Zahnow R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Psychometric Validation of a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Questionnaire on Sustainable Diets in Taiwan. [PDF]

Nutrients
Joy C, Chiang YC, Ko WH, Liu YF.
europepmc   +1 more source