Best practices for subsidizing agricultural insurance

P Hazell, P Varangis - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Many governments subsidize agricultural insurance for farmers. There are several reasons
behind these subsidies, some having to do with market failures that constrain the …

Rationality of choices in subsidized crop insurance markets

X Du, H Feng, DA Hennessy - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The US crop insurance market has several features that set it apart from other insurance
markets. These include explicit government subsidies with an average premium subsidy rate …

Trade, policy, and food security

VH Smith, JW Glauber - Agricultural Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Food insecurity is extensive throughout the world and hunger and malnutrition are expected
to remain serious humanitarian and political concerns, both in the short term and for the …

[HTML][HTML] Weather insurance in European crop and horticulture production

J Bucheli, N Conrad, S Wimmer, T Dalhaus… - Climate Risk …, 2023 - Elsevier
Weather risks threaten food production and put farms' profitability at risk. Insurance solutions
can compensate for the resulting financial losses and thereby serves as important risk …

Depressed demand for crop insurance contracts, and a rationale based on third generation Prospect Theory

H Feng, X Du, DA Hennessy - Agricultural Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
When actuarially fair insurance for a major risk is available then standard economic theory
posits that those subject to the risk should insure. In agriculture, it is common for producers …

Satellite support to insure farmers against extreme droughts

W Vroege, A Vrieling, R Finger - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
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content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support …

Crop Insurance in the EU: Lessons and Caution from the US

FG Santeramo, A Ford Ramsey - EuroChoices, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent changes in the Common Agricultural Policy suggest the possibility of an enlarged
crop insurance programme in Europe (Art. 37–39 of EU Reg. 1305/2013). Several countries …

Food, famine and the free trade fallacy: The dangers of market fundamentalism in an era of climate emergency

ME Margulis, K Hopewell… - Climate Change and …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The market fundamentalist logic underpinning WTO agricultural trade rules poses a
profound threat to global food security in the context of climate change. The growing …

US trade aid payments and the WTO

JW Glauber - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The trade wars initiated by the Trump Administration in 2018 had an adverse effect on US
agriculture. Countertariffs imposed by US trading partners had significant effects on US …

Trade impacts of agricultural support in the EU

A Matthews, L Salvatici, M Scoppola - 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This paper aims at providing an overview of the most relevant trade issues raised by the
current agricultural domestic and trade policies of the European Union (EU) and at drawing …