paper measures the extent to which risk management tools, especially direct payments and crop insurance, can significantly … management tools (CAP payments and crop insurance) so as to improve their income and to reduce its volatility (crop insurance …

subscription of crop insurance policies. …

. Objectives of this study are first to analyse how grassland yield insurance would substitute to self insurance in suckler cow …, simulations have been performed thanks to a bio-economic model applied to French suckler cow farms. Market insurance is found to … decrease profit variability in spite of simultaneous reduction of self insurance. Public supports increase expected utility …

The economic literature showed that remittances can replace missing credit and insurance markets. As a result, it is …

This study analyses numerically an animal disease insurance scheme and how it could be operationalized. We focus on … animal producer’s incentives to choose an insurance policy and on the feasibility of the insurance system as a whole. We … develop a simple simulation model where the producer chooses whether to take an insurance policy at a given price, and the …

In Finland, there is need for new crop insurance system as the Crop Damage Compensa-tion scheme (CDC) is abolished in … 2015. Therefore, the responsibility of farmers, insurance companies and government in case of crop damages and catastrophic … suggest that there occurs no such catastrophic risk that crop insurance system would not be able to cover. Thus, disaster …

Netherlands of an all-risk insurance package and underlying specific categories of insurance coverage. The major farm …-specific characteristic analyzed. The specific insurance categories reviewed were damage, legal, disability, liability and health insurance …. The results suggest that there are common and insurance-specific factors that can improve the design of insurance policies …

using exchange traded weather derivatives to hedge agricultural production and insurance risk. …