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Using participating and financial contracts to insure catastrophe risk: Implications for crop risk management

Enjolras, Geoffroy; Kast, Robert - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

High losses generated by natural catastrophes reduce the availability of insurance. Among the ways to manage risk, the subscriptions of participating and non-participating contracts respectively permit to implement the two major principles in risk allocation: the mutuality and the transfer...

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Coping with Systemic Risk in Index-based Crop Insurance

Shen, Zhiwei; Odening, Martin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

. We assess the effectiveness of two strategies for coping with systemic risk: regional diversification and securitization …

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Resilience of European farms under different CAP scenarios

Polman, Nico B.P.; Peerlings, Jack H.M.; Slangen, Louis H.G. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

The upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy will put pressure on agricultural incomes and will cause more price volatility and income risk for farms in the EU. This raises the question if and how farms will survive these disturbances. Farms are able to survive only if they respond...

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Characteristics of resources and the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Germany: the cases of fruit tree meadows and wolf protection

Thiel, Andreas; Schleyer, Christian; Plieninger, Tobias - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Work on common pool resources has paid scant attention to the role of properties of natural resources for the way their provision is governed. This paper scrutinizes determinants of institutions that regulate the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Two cases of maintaining...

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Co-ordination and networks at sub-regional level: how programmes can meet rural needs

Mantino, Francesco; Tarangioli, Serena; Tudini, Lucia - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

Main objective of this paper is focusing on local institutions and their ability to effectively respond to local needs in designing and implementing rural development policies. The main unit of analysis is the Province of Grosseto. In this area a great number of public national and regional...

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Rural development policy delivery and governance in Greece

Papadopoulou, Eleni; Christos, Papalexiou; Hasanagas, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

The main purpose of this research is focused on understanding the politico-administrative system and structure of rural policy implementation in the third programming period (2000-2006). Case studies have been conducted for selected measures of the Greek Rural Development Programme (RDP) and...

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RDP capacities, changing governance styles and the new challenges

Dwyer, Janet; Pereira, Sandrina; Mikk, Merit; Peepson, Argo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

CAP Pillar 2 policies and Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) reflect a broad range of governance styles and policy …

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Value Chains and Chains of Values: Tracing Tanzanian Tea

Loconto, A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value … chains, and 3) what does this mix of actors and values contribute to our understanding of value chain governance. Between …

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Managerial vision bias and cooperative governance

Deng, Wendong; Hendrikse, George - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

Member and professional CEOs of cooperatives differ regarding their managerial vision toward upstream and downstream projects. We show that the managerial vision bias will cause inefficiency in the project implementation. Cooperatives with member CEOs are extremely upstream-focused because of...

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Localised Agri-food Systems in Italy: strategies for competitiveness and role of institutional factors

Mantino, Franco - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

, according to recent studies on governance of rural areas, are also as far as cooperation and integration variables are concerned … understand the structure of the food chain supply and which kind of governance is characterising agriculture and agro-food sector … from the organisation that has been set up within the single LAFS: 1) LAFSs with lack of governance; 2) LAFSs with …

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