Business insurance in holistic risk management in agriculture (UBROL project) – review and dispute

Abstract

Between 2020 and 2022, three monographs were published as part of a project entitled “Business insurance in holistic risk management in agriculture oriented on sustainability, implementation of innovations and technologies, and opposing climate change” (a project co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) under the GOSPOSTRATEG programme). The studies under review, which were written with knowledge of the research topic and based on the authors’ own empirical research, are of an interdisciplinary nature, with the authors coming from numerous academic centres and varied academic disciplines. They expand on previous knowledge, not only with regards the titular business insurance, but also agriculture and, above all, agricultural risk management. Viewing the contents of the studies in general terms, it can be said that they are indeed interdisciplinary, although not sufficiently organised as regards the holistic model. For this reason the monographs, following revision, editing and minor abbreviations, should be published – an initiative worth recommending to the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics – State Research Institute (IERiGŻ PIB) or the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW) – in a single volume, which would undoubtedly result in some outstanding work covering several academic disciplines related to agriculture. Such work could then be quoted by and recommended to practitioners, theory makers and, as a likely objective of the study notwithstanding, to university students. Keywords: risk, agriculture, insurance, crops.