have been developed to hedge price risk on capitalmarkets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments, weather … derivatives, have beendeveloping that hedge the volumetric risk associated with unfavourable weather. Weatherderivatives have the … ability to effectively hedge weather related volume risk for the agricultural,mining, energy and manufacturing industries …

and market segregation. We represent explicitly the costs of non-GMO segregation and identity preservation (IP) for both … segregation in the European Union (EU). We analyze how the costs of IP are distributed among heterogenous producers, handlers and …

applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the … paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in … three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and …

China's 10-year old wheat futures market, the China Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (CZCE) has been in stable development …

—are investigated before and after the 2005 increase in speculative position limits for corn, soybean, and wheat contracts at the …, soybeans and wheat beginning in late 2005. The increase in position limits likely accommodated the increase in speculative … interest in corn, soybean and wheat futures, but some of the increase would have occurred without the increase as new market …

Biotechnology is a rapidly expanding field of science that has led to the formation of a large number of companies that … Australian biotechnology sector as a whole, a large percentage of Australian biotechnology firms are small and medium sized … alliances are critical to the success and development of biotechnology firms as they provide opportunities to share resources …