... in terms of prevention preparedness and recovery or rehabilitation from natural disasters in the Pacific Islands that local traditional agricultural diversity and traditional knowledge have considerable value in helping island societies solve the problems presented by natural disasters. At present, however, there is an increasing reliancy by individual island societies (eg. Villages, outer ...

Climate exerts a profound influence on the lives of rural populations, particularly the rural poor, who depend on agriculture for livelihood and sustenance, who are unprotected against climate-related diseases, who lack secure access to water and food, and who are vulnerable to hydrometeorological hazard. Climate shocks such as drought and flooding lead not only to loss of life, but also long-t...

T H E ADOPTION of a broad definition of "agricultural labor" in the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1 9 3 9 deprived some 4 5 0 , 0 0 0 to 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 persons of the old-age insurance protection they had enjoyed under the original act of 1 9 3 5 . I n addition, 100 ,000 to 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 workers whose s tatus under t h a t program had previously been in doubt were definitely excluded....

Agrarian insurance is a prerequisite for the existence of agriculture, especially agrarian countries. The present puts before agricultural production serious climatic, economic, and biological challenges. Insurance should become tool that will help balance risks between all participants in relations reduce adverse impact on standard living state. Proceeding from this, purpose this study was to ...

Abstract Weather shocks affect smallholder farmers and pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa unequally. Agricultural insurance has emerged as a safety net option to protect farmers’ welfare. However, comparison other regions, fewer African have adopted agricultural insurance. This review synthesises broad recent literature on why take-up remained low highlights six key themes, including: (1) produ...

When natural disasters afflict poor communities that lack buoyant access to financial markets, households face the unsavory choice of reducing consumption in order to protect remaining assets, or selling assets at low prices in order to maintain consumption and nutrition. Both choices are costly and damage future economic potential. Formal insurance markets would seem to offer large private and...

Off-farm work is a growing reality in the US agricultural sector as a whole. Another staple program in the US agriculture is the use of crop insurance. This paper assesses hitherto unaddressed issues of fuel consumption and hence pollution generated by farm households associated with off-farm work and crop insurance. We applied a quantile regression method on a unique national farm-level survey...

As an important agricultural policy, insurance will affect farmers’ production input, such as fertilizers and pesticides. Its development needs to consider the environmental impact adapt of sustainable development. In addition, chemical input behavior during process may also their participation behavior. Based on data from a survey 1318 farmers in Shandong, Liaoning, Jiangxi, Sichuan provinces ...