Showing 31 - 40 of 54,502
Taking into consideration the changes in the rules for the price support for agricultural and sea products, it seems appropriate to find out what other means could be used to cover the price risk in order to protect the commercial margin of these sectors of activity. The use of derivatives tools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731391
Taking into consideration the changes in the rules for the price support for agricultural and sea products, it seems appropriate to find out what other means could be used to cover the price risk in order to protect the commercial margin of these sectors of activity. The use of derivatives tools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789478
Romanian agriculture has been subjected to cyclical periods difficult enough over a short period of time. After the … observed or are not seen, the evolution of Romanian agriculture continued with the period before Romania joined EU, during this … period of time agriculture received financial suport, that was named SAPARD, but without visible results on the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457402
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725595
Organic farming is based on care for the proper functioning of ecosystems, organisms with the simultaneous production of wholesome food raw materials. It fits into the concept of sustainable development by implementing the aspects: economic, social and environmental. Theoretical and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024188
Farmers may use financial market instruments to hedge price risks. Moreover, various types of insurance products are on the market to protect against production losses. An insurance that covers losses of both input and output prices was recently introduced in the USA. We develop this concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853239
We hypothesize a reciprocal causation between crop insurance use and the economic performance of farms in an environment characterized by imperfect financial markets and farms' budget constraints. To test our hypothesis, we apply a system of simultaneous equations consisting of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944885
Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265945
Poor households with little or no wealth are particularly vulnerable to risks that reduce incomes and increase expenditures. This book addresses many of the risk-coping strategies for the rural poor, with a focus on micro level and household actions. Largely, these discussions concern risks that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279344
Agricultural insurances based on a climate index are an innovative form of insurance that represent a viable alternative for low-income countries. Such insurances are tied to a climatic index (e.g. the level of precipitation, temperature, humidity or crop yield) rather than an actual loss. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540903