Despite the significant risks and uncertainties that farmers in develo** and emerging
countries face in their production process, efforts at encouraging them to adopt agricultural …

In this article, we investigate the role of information transmission in promoting agricultural
technology adoption and diffusion through extension services and social learning. We …

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 …

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 …

Agriculture represents one of the most vulnerable sectors to extreme weather events that are
projected to increase with climate change. Insurance has been advocated as a more …

The factors affecting the demand for agricultural insurance in the USA have been
extensively studied over the last two decades. However, the determinants of a farm's entry …

A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current
population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions …

The aim of this paper is to understand which factors affect crop insurance decision in France
and in Italy. These neighbor countries are characterized by a changing insurance system …

While many crop insurance systems have been reformed around the world, few academic
researches have addressed the determinants of the decision on crop insurance at the farm's …