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| Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe; Alhassane, Agali; Traore, Seydou. |
| In the Sudano-Sahelian region, which includes South Niger, the inter-annual variability of the rainy season is high and irrigation is scarce. As a consequence, bad rainy seasons have a massive impact on crop yield and regularly entail food crises. Traditional insurances based on crop damage assessment are not available because of asymmetric information and high transaction costs compared to the value of production. We assess the risk mitigation capacity of an alternative form of insurance which has been implemented in India since 2003: insurance based on a weather index. We compare the capacity of various weather indices to increase utility of a representative risk-averse farmer. We show the importance of using plot-level yield data rather than village... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Index-based insurance.; Crop Production/Industries; Risk and Uncertainty; G21; O12; Q12; Q18; Q54.. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120378 |
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| Hübner, Rico; Kantelhardt, Jochen. |
| Agriculture is required to fulfil the needs and wants of society in a variety of fields: food supply, environmental services, landscape preservation and finally: climate mitigation. Using the example of land-use change in peatland in order to create possibilities for greenhouse-gas reduction, a survey about the intentions and future expectations of stakeholders was undertaken. The underlying network structure of these stakeholders in three representative peatland areas of Germany was determined and compared. The results show that considerable differences exist in the degree of knowledge about climate change and in the willingness to cooperate. Depending on the area studied, the most influential political entities are different and thus require different... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Land-use in peatland areas; Network analysis; Climate change mitigation.; Land Economics/Use; D83; D85; L31; Q54.. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51059 |
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