Conventional crop insurance systems are complex and often not economically feasible. Farmers reluctant to be covered for their crops due lack of trust in firms the fear delayed or non-payment claims. In this paper, a blockchain based solution is suggested. The suggested paper an affordable, efficient, low cost which will ensure many farmers insured benefiting from timely insurance. Currently ad...

Introduction Agricultural insurance is crucial to reducing financial exposures and vulnerabilities, managing the production risks of poultry farmers while also hunger levels. Unfortunately, it has not been effective in developing countries, like Nigeria. Methods This study examined outcome agricultural use on egg output efficiency Oyo State, The multistage sampling technique was adopted select ...

The United States produces 40% of the world’s corn and soybeans. Given its dominant market share, any effect on US production has global repercussions. Annual fluctuations in yields crucially depend on the occurrence of extreme heat as measured by temperatures that exceed 29C and 30C, respectively. We examine whether the highly subsidized US crop insurance gives farmers a disincentive to use al...

The main motivation for this paper is the recognition of the fact that asymmetric information in the form of moral hazard and adverse selection results in sizeable efficiency losses. These costs are passed back to producers in the form of excessively high premium rates and also passed back to the government via the crop insurance subsidy program. A secondary motivation stems from a recent debat...

Abstract Crop producers face significant and increasing drought risks. We evaluate whether insurances based on globally freely available satellite-retrieved soil moisture data can reduce farms’ financial risk exposure. design farm individual index for wheat, maize rapeseed production using a case study Eastern Germany. find that the significantly decrease exposure these crops compared to situat...

BACKGROUND Recent events have increased the instability of health insurance coverage. We compared emergency department (ED) use by newly insured vs continuously insured adults and by newly uninsured vs continuously uninsured adults. METHODS We analyzed 159,934 adult respondents to the 2004 through 2009 National Health Interview Survey. Health insurance status was categorized as newly insured ...

The study aims to create an overview of access non-reimbursable funds offered by the European Union through National Rural Development Program submeasure 17.1 In this way, analysis was made current situation compensation crop, animal and plant insurance premiums on Romanian farmers these funds. This showed that became increasingly interested in crop from (PNDR) 2014-2020, amid drought. Accordin...

The central focus of this dissertation is the role of financial instruments, in particular insurance and credit, in economic development. Motivated by the observation that exposure to the risk of extreme weather conditions may constrain investment by subsistence farmers and lead to inefficient production choices, the first chapter evaluates whether insuring farmers against such risks alters res...

Changes in cost sharing and remuneration system in the Netherlands in 2006 led to clear changes in financial incentives faced by both consumers and general practitioner (GPs). For privately insured consumers, cost sharing was abolished, whereas those socially insured never faced cost sharing. The separate remuneration systems for socially insured consumers (capitation) and privately insured con...

A retrospective registry review of adult patients admitted to a Level I trauma center sought to determine whether results regarding in-hospital mortality associated with payer source vary on the basis of methodology. Patients were categorized into 4 literature-derived definitions (Definition 1: insured and uninsured; Definition 2: commercially insured, publicly insured, and uninsured; Definitio...