Resistance to insecticides and herbicides has cost billions of US dollars in the agricultural
sector and could result in millions of lives lost to insect-vectored diseases. We mostly …

Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector
can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like …

There is increasing policy and research interest in disaster resilience, yet the extant
literature is still mired in definitional debates, epistemological orientations of researchers …

Viable farm households contribute to the resilience of agricultural and food systems. Farm
income is a policy-relevant proxy for this viability. Here, we address three key aspects of …

Crop insurance premium subsidies affect patterns of crop acreage for two reasons. First,
holding insurance coverage constant, premium subsidies directly increase expected profit …

Grassland based farming systems are exposed to extreme weather events causing volatile
farm incomes. Grazing and lacking yield measurements make it largely impossible to insure …

Agriculture is subject to a wide variety of risks, including many hazards arising from wide
spread natural disasters. The US federal crop insurance program, initially introduced on a …

Premium subsidies are a common policy tool to promote crop insurance participation in
many countries. However, the relationship between subsidies and demand is not entirely …

Previous research predicts significant negative yield impacts from warming temperatures,
but estimating the effects on yield risk and disentangling the relative causes of these losses …

Commercial agriculture in the United States is comprised of several hundred thousand
farms, and these farms continue to become larger and fewer. The size of commercial farms …