markers has fed a renewed interest in the search for alternatives to help producers in developing countries manage their risk …

can be used as a form of risk management and examines the relationship with crop insurance in order to better define … optimal risk management strategies. …

This work is a first attempt to analyze the effect of weather derivative availability on the risk management strategies … study. Numerical solutions show farmers improve their well-being by reducing their risk exposure. …

beneficial to farmers by diversifying risk onto separate land plots that usually have heterogeneous growing conditions. Applying … the risk-reduction hypothesis and indications that land fragmentation may be conducive to efficiency. This second finding … may seem counter-intuitive but is also supported by similar studies. We further argue that accounting for risk preferences …

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 …

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 …

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. …

absolute risk aversion - constant relative risk aversion (DARA-CRRA) utility function is used to examine crop management … decision that can be influenced by changes in inter-temporal risk behavior. Comparison is made from management perspective … the best crop management strategies, index insurance products are designed to help farmers further reduce production risk …