Agro-meteorological index insurance can transfer the risks in the agricultural production, reduce the farmers' economic losses, and promote a sustainable development of agricultural production. However, traditional agricultural insurance with a single rate has the problems of the presence of adverse selection, the difficulty of determining premium rates and assessing the claims. As a new agricu...

Agriculture is critical for human welfare, providing food, employment, income, and assets. In the past, agricultural research and development largely focused on improving production, productivity, and profitability of agricultural enterprises. Nutrition and other benefits of agriculture were not always optimized, while the negative impacts on health, well-being, and the environment were often i...

using telser and kataoka models of probabilistic-risky mathematical programming, the present research is to determine the optimized pattern of cultivating the agricultural products of shoshtar region under risky conditions. in order to consider the risk in the mentioned models, time period of agricultural years 1996-1997 till 2004-2005 was taken into account. results from telser and kataoka mod...

This plenary talk at the eighth annual Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health Forum, November 2009, described a conference held earlier in the year focusing on the hazards and risks associated with moving agricultural equipment on public roads. The Farm Equipment-Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention Conference (FEMVCPC), March 2009, Des Moines, Iowa, drew 54 participants representing 13 states ...

Summary. The food security with good and excellent nutrition quality safety quantity in the V4 countries is a strategic issue, where society less tolerant of risk that can be caused by short-term disruption supply chain. Climate change leading to more extreme weather anomalies, increasing frequency intensive amplitudes drought, floods excess waters serious agricultural damages. Agricultural wat...