Polish Farmers' Perception of Spring Frost and the Use of Crop Insurance Against this Phenomenon in Poland

Kaczała, Monika; Wiśniewska, Dorota

doi:10.18559/ebr.2015.3.7

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“…Because the correlation between risk perception and mitigation behavior is ambiguous [9,12,30,33,[51][52][53][54][55][56] the above considerations should be extended towards analysis of linkages between cognitive perception of risk by farmers and their taking action aimed at risk control, such as purchasing insurance. It would enable, among other things, a realistic construction of plans aimed at preventing the impact of drought, at least in the part which requires farmers' activity.…”

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“…D. Khanemann and A. Tversky within their prospect theory [27,28] point to numerous heuristics affecting the evaluation of probability by individuals, including availability heuristic [29]. Therefore it was assumed that experiences are indispensable in order to evaluate probability -when and how often the loss caused by drought occurred as well as its scope [26,[30][31][32][33]. It was also assumed that if within the prospect theory respondents are allowed to select various reference points, different types of loss may affect drought risk perception differently [27].…”

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Drought Risk and Its Perception by Farmers

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2019

International Scientific Conference ERAZ - Knowledge Based Sustainable Development

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the cognitive perception of risk among Polish farmers and the factors which have an impact on this perception. Statistical analysis and logit models were applied for analysing the representative poll taken in February and March 2019 in Poland (N=200). Farmers' risk perception is dominated by the subjective factors (average loss caused by drought in the previous year, frequency of other types of impact of drought, catastrophic potential of drought risk, immediacy of effect, the degree to which the risk is known to science, number of farms susceptible to drought, trust in experts' assessment of drought, trust in the media informing about drought, age and level of education) to a much higher extent than by the objective ones (monthly income, specialising in plant output, high-cost crops, the share of income from farming in the whole income).

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