manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary … independently and in a bundled package. Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to pay for drought-tolerant rice …

selection, and reduction in drought-related insurance payouts. To do so, we create a novel data set derived from a deep learning … model capable of automatically identifying the location of CPIS during drought years along with annual county level crop … to more water intensive crops, or an expansion of cropland. However, in drought years CPIS presence does have a …

Agricultural drought is a complex type of drought disaster, involving factors such as soil, crops, atmosphere, and … human resource utilization. The identification of regions’ agricultural drought risk and factors affecting agricultural … drought risk level are significant for disaster prevention and mitigation. To assess agricultural drought risk, this paper …

Drought disaster is one of the meteorological disasters that hinders agricultural development, and risk assessment of … static risk assessment model, which can get the year-by-year drought disaster information. Secondly, based on the static risk …. Although the meteorological risk in Liaoning Province had been high in recent years, the drought disaster in the area tended to …

Malawi periodically experiences drought leading to shortages of grain on the domestic market and a sharp increase in … farmers to produce enough grain even when drought occurs, for example, through input subsidies and efforts to improve water …, in the occasional year when drought is most extreme, supplementary assistance will still be needed in the form of …