Climate change is expected to intensify the existing risks, particularly in regions where water
scarcity is already a concern, as well as create new opportunities in some areas. Efforts to …

Index-based weather insurance is a major institutional innovation that could revolutionize
access to formal insurance for millions of smallholder farmers and related individuals. It has …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

Financial insurance for extreme events can play an important role in hedging against the
implications of climate change. This paper combines a comprehensive estimation strategy …

Climate has obvious direct effects on agricultural production. The reverse is more apparent
than ever as greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are tallied. The development and …

Agricultural insurance in developed countries originates in named peril products that were
originally offered by private companies approximately two hundred years ago, first in Europe …

Acetic acid (AcOH), a main component of vinegar, recently was found to suppress body fat
accumulation in animal studies. Hence we investigated the effects of vinegar intake on the …

In early 1990, the Bush Administration put forward its proposals for the 1990 Farm Bill.
Among a myriad of recommendations on commodity programs, conservation, trade, res …

We elicit the risk preferences of a sample of French farmers in a field-experiment setting,
considering both expected utility and cumulative prospect theory. Under the EU framework …

This study links climate change impacts to the development of adaptation strategies for
agriculture in Europe. Climate change is expected to intensify the existing risks, particularly …