Drought is widespread in Sahel, and its persistent occurrence has caused substantial damages to the agricultural sector …. The severity of drought and the related damages to the agricultural sector are expected to increase due to global warming …. In this paper, I examine the economic impacts of drought on Sahel agriculture. The maximum likelihood estimators of the …

U.S. Drought Impacts on the U.S. and International Rice Economy …

reducing total risk without hurting their profit. In nonagricultural banks, both profitability and total risk are adversely …

implementing a prairie dog hunting operation. It provides a ten-year financial impact and risk assessment for a typical Texas …

amplifying downside risk for producers. This study presents a framework for quantifying the effects of climate on crop yield … research and policy analysis in the production, risk management, climate change, and civil unrest literatures. …

Livestock Risk Protection Insurance (LRP) is a risk management tool available to cattle producers protecting against …

Recent changing climate causes reduction in yield. We estimate impact of drought and wet climate on mean, variance …, upside and downside risk of Mississippi county level cotton yield data using Moment Based Maximum Entropy framework of Tack … et al. (2012). Results suggest that mean effects are rather small, but there is a considerable reallocation of risk …