The purpose of this paper is to examine weather risk management by application of weather derivatives in agriculture … volatility in agriculture. … and evaluate the hedging efficiency. Agriculture is a sector highly sensitive to meteorological elements that affect the …

In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD …) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to … serves as a risk management tool for all of the cities in the same climatic zone, we compare the risk hedging power between …

-priority uses such as agriculture. These plans have recently become widespread across EU southern basins. Shockingly, in some of … availability in agriculture that results from the decision rules of the recently approved DMPs. The methodology is applied to the … particular case of the Guadalquivir River Basin in southern Spain. Results show that if the DMPs are successfully enforced …