Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks
while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural land from food crop production …

As an effective risk guarantee mechanism, crop insurance can not only disperse agricultural
operation risk, but also guide the agricultural green development. Based on Chinese …

The provision of better risk management tools for farmers and the reduction of adverse
effects from pesticide use are both important goals of agricultural policy–but are potentially …

Understanding how a changing climate alters regional comparative advantage is crucial for
evaluating the economic impacts of climate change. I exploit temporal variation in decades …

Premium subsidies are a common policy tool to promote crop insurance participation in
many countries. However, the relationship between subsidies and demand is not entirely …

Food insecurity is extensive throughout the world and hunger and malnutrition are expected
to remain serious humanitarian and political concerns, both in the short term and for the …

Because of the reductions in China's cultivated land area and the significant impact on the
agricultural market, the main grain-producing areas (MGPA) policy has become vitally …

Previous literature have shown that warming temperatures due to climate change are likely
to decrease mean crop yields and increase crop yield risk. However, there is limited …

The impact of risk management on farm productivity is still being debated. Using survey data
from French and Hungarian farms, we estimate the impacts of different risk management …

This study examines whether crop insurance participation reduces incentives to use cover
crops in corn and soybean production. To achieve this objective, we utilize 2006–2015 …