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Pitfalls and potential of institutional change : rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Müller, Birgit; Quaas, Martin F.; Frank, Karin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908100
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Pitfalls and potential of institutional change : rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Müller, Birgit; Quaas, Martin; Frank, Karin; … - 2009
-being while not impairing the sustainability of rangeland management. -- Ecological-economic modeling ; weather-index insurance … ; Namibia ; grazing management ; risk ; sustainability ; weather-based derivatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921518
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Pitfalls and Potential of Institutional Change : Rain-Index Insurance and the Sustainability of Rangeland Management
Müller, Birgit; Quaas, Martin F.; Frank, Karin; … - 2011
Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers coping with climatic risk that prevails in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201337
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Transhumant pastoralism, climate change and conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515899
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Transhumant pastoralism, climate change and conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593389
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Native grassland conversion : the roles of risk intervention and switching costs
Miao, Ruiqing; Hennessy, David A.; Feng, Hongli - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424076
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Index insurance and common property pastures
Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Osgood, Daniel Edward - 2008
This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the potential environmental consequences of weather index based … insurance, a tool for mitigating weather risk that is gaining momentum in developing countries. We model potential effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844097
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Can insurance payouts prevent a poverty trap? : evidence from randomized experiments in Northern Kenya
Noritomo, Yuma; Takahashi, Kazushi - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196949
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The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context
Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Teufel, Nils; Banerjee, Rupsha; … - In: Food policy 125 (2024), pp. 1-15
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Weather risk management in the agricultural sector of Poland and in the world
Michalak, Dorota - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2015) 3, pp. 99-114
Farming is an activity which is heavily exposed to risk. Farmers have to deal daily with the change of weather, crops … examine the level of awareness of Polish entrepreneurs in the agricultural industry of the impact of weather conditions on the … being insured. The low awareness of the impact of weather on agricultural business and the possibility to protect the farm …
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