Agricultural insurance in developed countries originates in named peril products that were originally offered by private companies approximately two hundred years ago, first in Europe and then in the United States. Today, many agricultural insurance products are offered, most of them heavily...

We examine the effects of multilateral trade reform on South Korean agriculture and its economy. We first measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) and its components (technological and technical efficiency change) by estimating a production function and stochastic frontier using data...

Unlike conventional insurance, which indemnifies policyholders for verifiable production losses arising from multiple perils, index insurance indemnifies policyholders based on the observed value of a specified 'index' or some other closely related variable that is highly correlated with losses....

This paper examines how rural livelihoods are improved owing to the impact of policy interventions through community-driven forest management in West Bengal, India. As an instance of comparative analysis of a gender-sensitive forestry program, this study employs the 'sustainable rural...