Abstract: In India agriculture is highly susceptible such risks as drought, floods, erratic rainfall, and other natural calamities etc… Therefore it is necessary to protect the farmers from the above said natural calamities and provide financial help for the next season. Since inception of the...

The new Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance (SURE) program, established by the 2008 Farm Bill, mandates disaster payments for individual farms that experience crop losses in excess of 50% of their average production, whether or not those farms are located in regions affected by...

We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second,...