The escalating threat of natural disasters to public safety worldwide underlines the crucial
role of effective environmental risk management tools, such as insurance. This is particularly …

The expansion of unconventional oil and gas development (UNGD) in the US has been
highly controversial so far with no consensus on its health, economic, environmental, and …

During the past decade, the number of earthquakes has increased dramatically in the state
of Oklahoma, largely attributed to induced seismicity from wastewater injections (hydraulic …

While climate change threatens global food security, health, and nutrition outcomes, Africa is
more vulnerable because its economies largely depend on rain-fed agriculture. Thus, there …

While contract farming and interlocked contractual arrangements (ICAs) are generally
perceived to resolve persistent market failures and improve smallholder farmers' welfare in …

Background Over the years the Government of Malawi has launched several initiatives to
improve food security in the country. Despite these efforts there have been limited …

While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics
characteristics shape threat appraisal and hazard adjustment intentions, this study expands …

For many decades, researchers have relied on small-scale agronomic experiments to
provide input management recommendations to farmers. However, such experiments have …

Abstract The 2018 United States Farm Bill has opened the possibility for farmers to increase
their profits through hemp cultivation. The literature suggests hemp has the potential to …

Bayesian analysis provides a principled way to quantify uncertainty and incorporate data
and prior knowledge into parameter estimates. This paper makes the latest in Bayesian …