farmland via an index of agribusiness stocks provides significant diversification benefits. We estimated the dependence between … daily returns of the S&P 500 and an index of agribusiness stocks from 1970 through 2008 using copulas. We find significant … evidence that agribusiness stocks have strong lower tail dependence with large U.S. stocks and are actually less correlated in …

Poisson models reveal the aspects and conditionings of organic farmer's risk perception. The diversification level of their …

Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between farmers’ risk-aversions and the riskiness … agency theory model we hypothesize the prevalence of alternative marketing arrangements (AMAs) in situations with high-risk … averse farmers and high-risk enterprises and the prevalence of spot (cash) markets for low risk-averse participants and less …

elevating the economical return and reducing the of the Payback Period capital invested, irrigated coffee reduces the risk of …The objective of this paper is analyze the economic viability of implanting different technological alternatives of … irrigation in the culture of coffee in the municipal district of Viçosa-MG. Technical and financial parameters of coffee …

The objective of this article was to evaluate the yield and risk in the production and storage of the Arabian coffee … to decrease the activity risk, being the best periods to sale coffee, on the part of the producers, the months that …. Cash flows are elaborated for coffee production in two productive systems, one with low productivity and other with high …

risks, causing these inroads to be limited. Market-based instruments are readily available for price risk. Organised … transparency to the market and low-cost risk transfer tools for those able to access them. While the use of price risk management … instruments is an incomplete solution, it has sufficient merits on its own and will make the overall burden of risk more bearable …