نتایج جستجو برای: livestock insurance

تعداد نتایج: 74107  

Journal: :Oryx 2023

Abstract Livestock depredation by snow leopards Panthera uncia poses a significant threat to the livelihoods of pastoral communities and engenders negative attitudes towards species, threatening its survival. We conducted 104 semi-structured interviews within local (livestock herders owners) in Nyesyang valley Manang District, Annapurna Conservation Area, western Nepal, assess status livestock ...

1996
Marcel Fafchamps Sarah Gavian

Not only does livestock makes an important contribution to rural incomes and export earnings in the Sahel, it is also kept as insurance against weather risk. Fluctuations in livestock prices can therefore trigger food entitlement failures. Using monthly price data from Niger, we show that livestock prices respond to droughts and pasture availability. They are also exposed to aggregate shifts in...

Journal: :Revue scientifique et technique 2006
R G Breeze

There are no technological barriers to eliminating major transboundary livestock diseases. 'Elimination' means that diseases no longer threaten livestock in the developed world nor the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of small farmers elsewhere. The problem is not lack of technology but failure of public policy. Developed country policy should actively combat accidental and intentional intro...

2015
Sarah A. Janzen Michael R. Carter Munenobu Ikegami

This paper uses numerical dynamic stochastic programming methods to show that an insurance market can reduce the long-term extent and depth of poverty in a stylized, risk-prone rural region. This impact operates through both an ex post vulnerability reduction effect and an ex ante investment incentive effect. The result is not only lower poverty, but also substantial savings in public cash tran...

Journal: :Journal of dairy science 2010
M Valvekar V E Cabrera B W Gould

Milk and feed price volatility are the major source of dairy farm risk. Since August 2008 a new federally reinsured insurance program has been available to many US dairy farmers to help minimize the negative effects of adverse price movements. This insurance program is referred to as Livestock Gross Margin Insurance for Dairy Cattle. Given the flexibility in contract design, the dairy farmer ha...

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