Insurance risk assessment in the face of climate change: Integrating data science and statistics

V Lyubchich, NK Newlands, A Ghahari… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Local extreme weather events cause more insurance losses overall than large natural
disasters. The evidence is provided by long‐term observations of weather and insurance …

Mapping global research on agricultural insurance

S Vyas, T Dalhaus, M Kropff, P Aggarwal… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With a global market of 30 billion USD, agricultural insurance plays a key role in risk finance
and contributes to climate change adaptation by achieving Sustainable Development Goals …

Uncertainties of potentials and recent changes in global yields of major crops resulting from census-and satellite-based yield datasets at multiple resolutions

T Iizumi, M Kotoku, W Kim, PC West, JS Gerber… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Global agriculture is under pressure to meet increasing demand for food and agricultural
products. There are several global assessments of crop yields, but we know little about the …

Predicting county-scale maize yields with publicly available data

Z Jiang, C Liu, B Ganapathysubramanian, DJ Hayes… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Maize (corn) is the dominant grain grown in the world. Total maize production in 2018
equaled 1.12 billion tons. Maize is used primarily as an animal feed in the production of …

Risk management in agricultural production

J Tack, J Yu - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Risk management in agricultural production is a first order problem as producers' long-run
sustainability often depends on their ability to reduce the adverse effects of profit …

Restoring definiteness via shrinking, with an application to correlation matrices with a fixed block

NJ Higham, N Strabic, V Sego - siam REVIEW, 2016 - SIAM
Indefinite approximations of positive semidefinite matrices arise in various data analysis
applications involving covariance matrices and correlation matrices. We propose a method …

Forecasting transplanted rice yield at the farm scale using moderate-resolution satellite imagery and the AquaCrop model: a case study of a rice seed production …

K Prathumchai, M Nagai, NK Tripathi… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Thailand has recently introduced agricultural policies to promote large-scale rice farming
through supporting and integrating small-scale farmers. However, achieving these policies …

Modeling field-level conservation tillage adoption with aggregate choice data

T Wade, L Kurkalova, S Secchi - Journal of Agricultural and Resource …, 2016 - JSTOR
This empirical study of conservation tillage adoption relies on the logit model applied to
fieldlevel information on agents' attributes and county-aggregated measures of agents' …

Implications of alternative crop insurance subsidies

A Maisashvili, HL Bryant, JPH Jones - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this research, we analyze the economic effects across various crop insurance subsidy and
policy scenarios to determine producer insurance choice response, total premium and …

A bayesian network approach to county-level corn yield prediction using historical data and expert knowledge

V Chawla - 2016 - search.proquest.com
A Bayesian network approach to county-level corn yield prediction using historical data and
expert knowledge by Vikas Chawla A t Page 1 A Bayesian network approach to county-level corn …