This paper explores and analyzes farmers’ risk perceptions, risk management instruments’ demand and usage in five … importance of several sources of farms’ risk and income instability, and at the actual means that farmers pursue to manage and … face them. The second area focuses on the demand for risk management instruments. The paper’s objective is to determine the …

to buy multiple peril crop insurance, because it significantly reduces the variability of income. The risk reduction … strongly depends on the decision maker's degree of risk aversion. Furthermore, risk free parts of the total income reduce the …

Although risk management in farming is a well-documented subject in scientific literature, this same literature is … usually used only by other scientist and is not aiding individual farmers in their management. Risk perception and risk … attitude are well described determinants of risk behaviour but rarely combined in an integrated approach for risk behaviour …

The paper compares the risk coping potential of insurances that are based on indices derived from weather (rainfall and … deficit index (RDI) have a very good potential for coping with risk in semiarid areas. Crop simulation model index (CSI) on …

production function is employed and estimated to assess whether risk-averse farmers hedge risk by diversifying their portfolio of … crops. The study shows that risk aversion leads to crop biodiversity conservation. However, providing CAP financial … assistance on certain crops appears to decrease the relationship between revenue risk management and crop biodiversity …

Risk management in agriculture has been implemented probably as long as agriculture exists. One of the factors why … researchers and policymakers recently are more interested in farm risk management is the vulnerability farmers face towards … recovery measures like disaster funds do not obstruct farmers to take risk prevention measures. On the other hand, 25-30% of …

many developed countries. To examine the effects of public risk management programs on optimal nitrogen fertilizer use and …

risks but also require strategic reorientations on the part of food manufacturers. So far, risk management and strategic … manufacturers' perceived market risks and strategic risk management of food manufacturers. Empirical Our data stem from large …