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The adoption of improved varieties and technologies by rural agricultural households remains a major goal in development efforts. This is because researchers and development practitioners recognize it as a potential source of income growth for the poor. However, while studies on adoption of...
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policy from income support to risk management. A mix of price- and revenue-based commodity programs as well as yield- and … revenue-based insurance products provide crop producers a complex portfolio of risk management tools and choices. To make … effective risk management decisions, crop producers must integrate farm programs and crop insurance alternatives in a …
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equivalent analysis is used to rank farm policy and crop insurance alternatives for varying levels of risk aversion. …
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trap-based surveillance program for early detection of wood borers and bark beetles at risk of establishing in New Zealand …, with greater surveillance warranted in areas closer to at-risk high-value resources and in areas that receive more imported …
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This paper examines the effect of Canadian agricultural business risk management (BRM) programs on farm financial … farm financial performance with a corresponding reduction in risk. Much of the benefit from participation comes from … to both risk management and environmental policy in terms of policy effectiveness, efficiency and compatibility. …
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This work outlines the quantitative procedures and results of the policy effects for alternative designs of federal revenue-based farm income safety net programs on eight individual representative farms across the state of Nebraska. Measures include financial impacts of the farm crop...
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A stochastic simulation model is used to determine crop insurance premiums and farm program payments for a Illinois corn-soybean and Mississippi corn-soybean-rice-cotton farm. The optimal portfolio of crop insurance and farm programs are determined subject to payment limitations and crop...
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Income tax incentives directly affect the economic feasibility of proposals for tax-deferred risk management accounts …
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the intertemporal risk management of wheat producers in the Pacific Northwest. Optimization results based on simulated … institutions on farmers' risk management decisions and welfare. A comparison between the GEU and other expected utility models … to the substitution of government programs for hedging. The evaluation of current risk management tools shows both crop …
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