How Drought Affects Agricultural Insurance Policies: The Case of Italy

Fusco, Giulio; Miglietta, Pier Paolo; Porrini, Donatella

doi:10.5539/jsd.v11n2p1

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“…On all farms, around 99% of the water used for livestock husbandry is water that has been used for feed production. This correlates to other studies, calculating the WP [13], or water footprint, where around 98% of the total animal footprint comes from their consumed feed [45]. Only approx.…”

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confidence: 85%

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Farm Water Productivity in Conventional and Organic Farming: Case Studies of Cow-Calf Farming Systems in North Germany

Vellenga

Qualitz

Drastig

2018

Water

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The increase of organic agriculture in Germany raises the question of how water productivity differs from conventional agriculture. On three organic and two conventionally farming systems in Germany, water flows and water related indicators were quantified. Farm water productivity (FWP), farm water productivity of cow-calf production (FWP livestock ), and farm water productivity of food crop production (FWP food crops ) were calculated using the modeling software AgroHyd Farmmodel. The FWP was calculated on a mass and monetary basis. FWP livestock showed the highest productivity on a mass basis occurring on a conventional farm with 0.09 kg m −3 W input , whereas one organic farm and one conventional farm showed the same results. On a monetary basis, organic cow-calf farming systems showed the highest FWP livestock , with 0.28 € m −3 W input . Since the productivity of the farm depends strongly on the individual cultivated plants, FWP food crops was compared at the level of the single crop. The results show furthermore that even with a precise examination of farm water productivity, a high bandwidth of temporal and local values are revealed on different farms: generic FWP for food crops and livestock are not within reach.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“…Climate change impacts agricultural production processes. Possible solutions against crop losses due to drought are published by [13]. To support planning reliability for the farmers an all-risk insurance and the already existing governmental drought relief programme (German: Dürrehilfsprogramm) could be helpful.…”

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confidence: 99%

Farm Water Productivity in Conventional and Organic Farming: Case Studies of Cow-Calf Farming Systems in North Germany

Vellenga

Qualitz

Drastig

2018

Water

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“…The second, drought and water scarcity cause losses in the agricultural sector, and insurance is a possible instrument to recovery the losses. Therefore, the government ought to encourage farmers to take agricultural insurance [58,59]. The third, agricultural planting structure and distribution are urgent to be optimized.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Assessment of Water Footprints and Water Scarcity Pressure for Main Crops in Shandong Province, China

Guo

Wang

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Rapid economic development has posed pressure on water resources, and the potential for a water crisis has become an important obstacle to the sustainable development of society. Water footprint theory and its applications in agriculture provide an important strategic basis for the rational utilization and sustainable development of water resources. Based on the monthly meteorological observations and agricultural data of Shandong Province, CROPWAT 8.0 and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, the green, blue and grey water footprints of wheat, maize, cotton and groundnut from 1989 to 2016 were calculated and the spatial variations of water footprints for crops in different rainfall years were analyzed. Additionally, assessment of water stress for agricultural productions was conducted in this study. The results showed that the average water footprints of wheat, maize, cotton and groundnut were 2.02 m3/kg, 1.24 m3/kg, 7.29 m3/kg and 1.75 m3/kg, respectively in Shandong Province. A large amount of the average total water footprint was calculated for wheat (420.59 × 108 m3/yr), maize (222.16 × 108 m3/yr), cotton (72.70 × 108 m3/yr) and groundnut (50.07 × 108 m3/yr). The average total water footprint of the four crops was 765.52 × 108 m3/yr (29.98% blue) and exhibited a gradual decreasing trend over time. Specifically, the total water footprint of wheat was the highest among four main crops in Shandong Province and exhibited a decreasing trend during 1989–2016. The maize was ranked in the second place, and was the only crop still increasing rapidly. The spatial and temporal changes of water footprints for crops were obvious in different rainfall years. Additionally, agricultural productions in most regions were facing the threat of water scarcity. Therefore, the scientific planning of crop planting structures and rational control of sown areas of crops with large water footprints should be implemented in severely water-scarce regions. This study can give some suggestions on the adjustment of planting structure for the sustainable development of agriculture and the realization of efficient utilization of water resources.

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“…The existing literature focusing on disaster insurance in developing and emerging countries has covered merely few aspects, such as the post disaster government policies, agriculture insurance, and micro insurance (Linnerooth-Bayer et al 2009;Krishna 2005;Sawada and Takasaki 2017;Fusco et al 2018). The reason for having such a narrow academic contribution on this subject in the context of developing and emerging countries can be attributed to policy orientation in these countries.…”

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Memory, Risk Aversion, and Nonlife Insurance Consumption: Evidence from Emerging and Developing Markets

Tiwari

Patro

2018

Risks

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Policymakers in developing and emerging countries are facing higher risk that is related to natural disasters in comparison to developed ones because of persistent problem of supply-side bottleneck for disaster insurance. Additionally, lower insurance consumption, higher disaster risk, and high income elasticity of insurance demand have worsened the loss consequences of natural disaster in these markets. In this context, current study for the first time argues that the supply side bottleneck problem has its origin in peculiar pattern of disaster consumption owing to memory cues. The study finds that relatively higher frequency of natural disasters acts as a negative memory cue and positively impacts insurance consumption. On the other hand, a relatively lower frequency of natural disasters adversely impacts insurance consumption in the background of variation in risk aversion behavior. For this purpose, current study has based its work on Mullainathan (2002), which builds its argument around memory cues.

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How Drought Affects Agricultural Insurance Policies: The Case of Italy

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Farm Water Productivity in Conventional and Organic Farming: Case Studies of Cow-Calf Farming Systems in North Germany

Farm Water Productivity in Conventional and Organic Farming: Case Studies of Cow-Calf Farming Systems in North Germany

Comprehensive Assessment of Water Footprints and Water Scarcity Pressure for Main Crops in Shandong Province, China

Memory, Risk Aversion, and Nonlife Insurance Consumption: Evidence from Emerging and Developing Markets

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