applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the … paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in … three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and …

is to develop a multiperiod mathematical risk programming model able of assisting water user associations with the … and irrigation system application rates in the model. Risk simulation procedures are used to generate an appropriately … correlated inter- and intra-temporal risk matrix for the programming model. A combination of subjectively elicited distributions …

, in anticipation of having a poor season, farmers minimize downside-risk, which is perceived as far more likely than … that the use of higher N rates (relative to the region’s average) can reduce risk in a highly variable dryland environment … like the Mallee region in south-eastern Australia. Overall, typically risk-averse Mallee farmers with low starting N seem …

oligopsonist powers could not be confirmed. Instead traders’ margins depend on costs, risk and uncertainty that they face …

depend on farmers’ socio-economic characteristics such as wealth, while individual risk preferences seem to be less important …

include adverse changes in both input and output prices, Agricultural risk can be categorized as production risk, price or … management strategies to overcome risk to greater extent. It is regarded as an essential part of well rounded agricultural … natural hazards. Compared to other traditional risk reducing strategies, such as crop diversification, inter-cropping, mixed …

risk decreasing., and hence, insurance premiums for US corn growers who plant approved hybrids have been reduced. In this … of GM traits is likely to affect production variability and downside risk. We estimate a heteroskedastic production … most combinations of GM traits leads to an increase in both yield variability and downside risk. …

The risk of spread of HPAI in Nigeria was derived by using a compartmental model to outline endemic and burn …-out scenarios. Two paths, low and high mortality risks, were associated to each of the scenarios. The estimated risk parameters were …, and benefit cost ratio) were estimated for each randomly drawn risk parameter. On average, the results show that such an …