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IARFIC 2014 : papers from the 3rd International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference / guest editors, Assistant Professor Lysa Porth and Professor ssKen Seng Tan.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference (3rd)
- Series:
- Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 75, Issue 1
- Agricultural Finance Review, 0002-1466 ; Volume 75, Number 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural credit.
- Agricultural insurance.
- Agriculture--Taxation.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Bradford, England] : Emerald, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 23, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-78441-898-6
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