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Klimaresilienz durch Agrobiodiversität? Literaturstudie zum Zusammenhang zwischen Elementen der Agrobiodiversität und der Empfindlichkeit von landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystem...
Petersen, Ute; Weigel, Hans-Joachim - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2015
Im globalen und regionalen Kontext wird wiederholt auf eine Diversifizierung der Agrarproduktion von der genetischen über die Betriebs- bis hin zur Landschaftsebene als eine entscheidende Maßnahme zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel hingewiesen. Allgemein bekannt ist, dass für die züchterische...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …
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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
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OECD’s work on agricultural policy: A bridge between research and government
Cahill, Carmel - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59
The role of the OECD in linking the research and policy communities is described as well as the processes whereby OECD member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to illustrate the approaches and processes used. Attention...
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Risikoberücksichtigung in der nicht parametrischen Effizienzanalyse: Auswirkungen auf die Effizienzbewertung von deutschen Schweinemastbetrieben
Tiedemann, Torben; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 60 (2011) 4
integrating risk into Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The riskadjusted DEA models are applied to a balanced panel of 278 farms … with alternative degrees of specialisation in pig fattening. Both models explicitly take account of output risk in … determining efficient benchmarks. Output risk is measured and included in both models as standard deviation of total farm gross …
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