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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797238703321

Titolo

IARFIC 2014 : papers from the 3rd International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference / / guest editors, Assistant Professor Lysa Porth and Professor ssKen Seng Tan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England] : , : Emerald, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78441-898-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

Agricultural Finance Review, , 0002-1466 ; ; Volume 75, Number 1

Disciplina

332.7

Soggetti

Agricultural credit

Agricultural insurance

Agriculture - Taxation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Behavioral economic insights on index insurance design; Challenges in the design of crop revenue insurance; Meso-level weather index insurance; Designing catastrophic bonds for catastrophic risks in agriculture; A financial engineering approachto pricing agricultural insurances; Agricultural risk management using NDVI pasture index-based insurance for livestock producersin south west Buenos Aires province ; Is there a demand for multi-year crop insurance?

Factors affecting farmers 'willingness to purchase weather index insurance in the Hainan Province of China25 spring wheat was abubble, right?; Human resource risk and succession planning

Sommario/riassunto

A significant global transformation must take place in order to increase food production by 70% by 2050, a figure the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates is needed to feed the world's future population. This is not an easy task, however, as agriculture is faced with a number of major challenges. Therefore, it is important that issues regarding food security, stability, sustainability, investment, innovation, multi-stakeholder partnerships, governance, etc., are addressed. The International Agricultural Risk, Finance, and Insurance



Conference (IARFIC) aims to facilitate impor