This article examines the issues of state support for development livestock sector in country, particular, subsidies and soft loans, insurance against various diseases natural disasters, as well process reforms field. It also analyzes current implementation economic provides practical recommendations priority sector.

Reform (FAIR) Act implemented farm program contract payments that do not increase as agricultural prices fall, shifting farm policy toward a greater emphasis on risk management and, in particular, on crop insurance. This shift has resulted in the introduction of new types of insurance policies; especially those that provide both yield and price protection. Several new and innovative crop polici...

This paper estimates, using a large panel data set from rural Bangladesh, the effects of health shocks on household consumption and how access to microcredit affects households’ response to such shocks. Our results suggest that even though in general consumption remains stable in many cases when households are exposed to health shocks, households that have access to microcredit appear to cope (...

Livestock insurance consists of livestock owners pooling resources together in order to hedge against the risk attacks by predators on their individual herds. We use an economic model study optimal and discuss its viability improving outcomes for owners. The benefit from depends owners' level aversion. calibrate using data Project Snow Leopard investigate potential achieving conservation goals....

Livestock Gross Margin Insurance for Dairy Cattle (LGM-Dairy) is Asian basket option-like insurance tool that enables U.S. dairy producers to protect income-over-feed-costs margins. While LGM-Dairy rating method assumes flat implied volatility curves for all marginal price distributions, substantial evidence suggests upward-bending skews in implied volatility curves are typical and expected fea...