The problem of food security during the last few decades has acquired a global character. Population growth, reduction of farmland suitable for agriculture and ecological factors has led to a sharp increase in food demand. In such conditions, the role of countries which are able to increase the export of agricultural production in short-term periods is rising. Ukraine has great opportunities fo...

the problem of food security during the last few decades has acquired a global character. population growth, reduction of farmland suitable for agriculture and ecological factors has led to a sharp increase in food demand. in such conditions, the role of countries which are able to increase the export of agricultural production in short-term periods is rising. ukraine has great opportunities fo...

Insurance services and financial compensation are regarded for the consequences of events that may happen or not.Farmers and stakeholders can be benefited from the agricultural and natural resources insurance so that they can attain much more stability in resources management, especially through mitigating the effects of potential and imminent risks. The current research was aimed to determine ...

A sample survey of 74 commercial dairy farmers was conducted between November 2002 and February 2003 in three Zobatat (zones) of Eritrea to identify factors that affect the adoption of livestock insurance. The results of a logit model indicate that formal education of the farmer and the farmer’s awareness of livestock insurance increase the probability of insurance adoption, whereas farming exp...

the main objevtive  of  the study is to determine the factors which influence the addeptance or rejection of rural livestock insurance in garmsar. the research method is descriptive one. there are  two groups of  research populations: 1467 cases in acceptance group & 7000 cases in rejection group. the sample population is 320 cases among 8467 ones. data collection instrumennt is questionnaire. ...

The study was conducted in Assosa district of Benishangul-Gumuz regional state, western Ethiopia, to assess major farm enterprises, agricultural risks and demand for micro-insurance services. Two peasant associations namely, Selga-23 and Kushmengel were selected to represent settler and native farming communities, respectively. Using simple randomized techniques, 86 respondents were selected fo...

Congress extended the crop insurance program to livestock with the Agricultural Risk Protection Act (ARPA) of 2000. Two livestock insurance products, Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) and Livestock Gross Margin (LGM), were subsequently approved by FCIC for sale beginning in the summer of 2002. Originally, LRP offered insurance against unexpected declines in the market price of hogs in Iowa. In 20...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product designed to compensate for area average predicted livestock mortality loss in northern Kenya, where previous work has established the presence of poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth dynamics based on a model parameterized using rich panel and experimental data from the region. The sim...

insurance industry is one of the effective factors of developing sustainable agriculture. natural resources that are more pone to influence than other phenomenon such as: drought, there are limited areas under insurance. from 86.4 million hectares of country ranges, there are nearly 3 million hectares under insurance. semnan province are compared to other areas has more range insured. therefore...