...Roberto Mattes Horn; Rogério Costa Campos; Francisco Mazzarolo Seger; Mario Canever Purpose Traditional crop insurance has low adoption in developing countries due to operational inefficiencies and poor systemic risk information, limiting insurers’ diversification and farmer utility. In Brazil...

... − M O R T ) × W F C S ) , Financial evaluation Cash Profits Risk Broiler hybrid production system Small-scale farmers Rwanda Africa Stochastic financial statements International Development (USAID)/Rwanda and the African Sustainable Agriculture Project...

... strategies that have a high-profit enhancement potential necessarily have low profit risk for dryland wheat and sorghum production. On the contrary, such a connection is absent for dryland corn and soybeans production. Low-cost farm safety net strategies that enhance corn and soybeans profits do...

... high income variability but financial risk management tools are not sufficiently developed or widely accessible to assist farmers in managing the associated risk. This deficiency can have negative implications for household economic welfare and future farm investments and hence the future farm income...

...Edgar Edwin Twine; James Unterschultz; James Rude Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Alberta’s cattle loan guarantee program. It measures the risk premiums on lending that would accrue to banks participating in the program, estimates the value (price) of the loan guarantee...

... challenges and research needs are described. Dr Barry Barnett can be contacted at: barnett@agecon.msstate.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Risk Crop insurance Crop insurance policies can be classified according to a number of different characteristics. Some policies pay...

...H. Holly Wang This paper first discusses the possibility of market‐transferable land use rights and mortgage loans in China, and then shows farmers’ welfare gain in the presence of such mortgage loans with a theoretical model. Cases of risks and asymmetric information are studied, and policy...

... Agricultural yields Bayesian learning Bayesian updating Climate change Expectation Risk Trend Variance ...

...Gary D. Schnitkey; Bruce J. Sherrick; Scott H. Irwin This study evaluates the impacts on gross revenue distributions of the use of alternative crop insurance products across different coverage levels and across locations with differing yield risks. Results are presented in terms of net costs...

...Martin Odening; Jan Hinrichs This study examines problems that may occur when conventional Value‐at‐Risk (VaR) estimators are used to quantify market risks in an agricultural context. For example, standard VaR methods, such as the variance‐covariance method or historical simulation, can fail when...

...Peter J. Barry; Cesar L. Escalante; LeeAnn E. Moss This study utilizes an expected utility framework to conceptualize the risk‐adjusted valuation of cash versus share leases for farmers and landowners. Farm‐level data then are used to empirically estimate the rental spread between these leases...

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... ratios. Levels of cash rent are associated primarily with differences in soil productivity, tract size, and net worth. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Cash leases Farmland, Leasing Risk Share leases ...