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weather events which was initiated and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture (Gömann et al …Der folgende Bericht untersucht die ökonomischen Auswirkungen von Hochwasser auf die Landwirtschaft in Deutschland … Landwirtschaft (BMEL) beauftragt und gefördert wurde und 2015 abgeschlossen wurde (Gömann et al. 2015). Der Literaturüberblick über …
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Die Herausforderungen des fortschreitenden Klimawandels stellen die globale Landwirtschaft zukünftig vor große …. Auf Basis dieser Klimaprojektionen wird die Bewässerungsbedürftigkeit der Landwirtschaft Bayerns in einer Modellsimulation … wird die Bewässerungsbedürftigkeit der bayerischen Landwirtschaft für die Perioden 1991-2020 (Ex-Post-Periode) und 2021 …
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index-based insurance are an alternative to classical hedging opportunities of weather risks. While science have mainly … focused on the conception, pricing and hedging effectiveness of new weather risk management instruments, a research gap exists … regarding the farmers' subjective perception of weather risks, the analysis of implemented on-farm measures for weather risk …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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agricultural productivity through a reduction in weather-associated risks. In the first part, we provide a theoretical foundation … uncertainty with respect to the timing and the size of an adverse weather shock. We subsequently calibrate the model to match the …
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The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University develops and maintains data to simulate 94 representative crop, dairy, and livestock operations in major production areas in 30 states. The chief purpose of this analysis is to project the economic viability of those farms by...
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The agreement signed by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government on 2 November 2022 offers a real chance to end one of the bloodiest wars in the world. The implementation of the agreement is going well so far. However, the peace process has brought into focus the...
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Climate change leads to more frequent and more intense droughts in Somalia. In a global context, weather shocks have … outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show that this causality is valid also for Somalia at the local level. We find … that livestock price shocks drive drought-induced conflicts through reducing the opportunity costs of conflict …
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This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India and presents preliminary evidence on the determinants of insurance participation. Insurance take-up is found to be decreasing in basis risk...
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In usual pricing approaches for weather derivatives, forward-looking information such as meteorological weather … model for the daily temperature, this paper allows the incorporation of meteorological forecasts in the framework of weather …
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