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Concern for risks that stifle investment and contribute to vulnerability of the rural poor is a driving force behind various types of agricultural insurance. Insuring small-scale farmers against crop losses to adverse weather or other hazards has attracted public sector involvement in the...
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Taking into consideration the changes in the rules for the price support for agricultural and sea products, it seems appropriate to find out what other means could be used to cover the price risk in order to protect the commercial margin of these sectors of activity. The use of derivatives tools...
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The aim of this paper is to summarise a variety of dimensions of agricultural risk in Argentina and to propose different lines of research related to an integrated risk management framework at the macro and micro levels. First, we analyse the incidence of the primary sector in the Argentinean...
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The study develops the methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance rating. As the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the standard linear correlation method, we suppose that copulas are more adequate for pricing a weather index insurance contract against...
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Certain commodity producers face uncertain output and price, but can trade financial derivatives on price. I consider how best to use a put option on price. I introduce the variance surface, which is a data visualization technique that shows the level of variance across a grid of values for the...
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, financial institutions perceive agriculture as highly risky to be financed. In fact there are seven major risks immanent for … agriculture: production, market, legal, human, technical, financial and political risks. Anyway, young farmers should not be … farmers because of their courage, entrepreneurship and ability to understand modern agriculture and finance. …
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This policy document analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency in allocation and use of funds from the Fifth component of the Instrument for Pre-Accession of the European Union for rural development - IPARD in Macedonia. The findings and recommendations are based on previous observations of the...
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addition to other macroeconomic indicators show a high risk of investing in the entire economy, as well as in agriculture, as …
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Nevertheless the share of agriculture sector in the GDP has declined in the recent past; agriculture is the backbone … and engine of the Indian economy. Agriculture continues play a vital role in the development of India. More than 60 per … cent of the people, especially rural Indians, still depends agriculture sector for their subsistence and most of the …
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Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …
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