A large majority think agriculture and rural areas are important for the future, but there is no clear consensus about whether several aspects of rural life are improving or getting worse - More than nine in ten (92%) think agriculture and rural areas are important for the future, with 53%...

The United States has perhaps the richest history of any jurisdiction in regards to agricultural policy, having started with various legislation in the late 1800s that created land grant colleges, agricultural experiment stations and county-level extension agencies - the functions of teaching,...

The main objective of the case study is to analyse the transition from single-peril insurance to multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI), being either pure private-based or public-private under Article 37 (Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2013). Policy makers in Germany and the Netherlands have the ambition...

Three Member States, Hungary, Italy, and Spain (the Castilla y Leon region) planned expenditures in their Rural Development programmes for creating an Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) under Article 39 for the period 2014-2020. At the beginning of 2017, none of these Member States had implemented...

The 'Study on risk management in EU agriculture' provides an analysis of current agricultural risks and risk management instruments. It provides a mapping of relevant risks in EU agriculture. Information on availability and use of risk management instruments was collected in all Member States...

The case study analyses the development of Mutual Funds (MFs) designed under Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2013. Three Member States planned expenditures in their Rural & Development programmes 2014-2020 on such MFs for compensating production losses due to climatic, sanitary and...

In the past, Canada had a plethora of agricultural programs that ranged from transportation subsidies to state trading and various regular and ad hoc income support programs. Transportation programs benefitted crop and livestock producers, but distorted the location of livestock raising. Various...

Price risk management is a crucial issue for farmers and for the supply chain operating under competitive market conditions. The lack of visibility on the future of markets induces short-term production decisions and sub-optimal long-term investment behaviour, with adverse consequences on...

This case study explores the existing and potential options to modulate the catastrophic losses during an outbreak of an epidemic livestock disease. It makes a critical assessment of the different loss coverage instruments, related to the control of contagious animal diseases. Special attention...

Farm size is often a significant factor in explaining insurance uptake.In particular, larger farms are generally more specialised and thus more exposed to risk. Moreover, larger farms are more inclined to adopt more sophisticated risk management strategies. Small-scale and non-specialised farms...