Agriculture is one of the sectors most exposed to a plethora of risky phe-nomena such as weather, pests and diseases, changes in prices and government poli-cies, instability of global markets. We review the literature on risk management (RM) in agriculture focusing on five key issues: i) why evidence on RM is often controversial; ii) how farmers behave in selecting among available RM instruments; iii) why some of these instruments are underutilised; iv) how to assess the impacts of innovative RM tools to (further) improve their design; v) how agricultural policy measures aimed at increasing the environmental sustainability of the sector could affect RM choices. We address all these issues to get a holistic vision of RM, and point at areas where further analyses are needed
Towards a holistic approach to sustainable risk management in agriculture in the EU: a literature review
Trestini S.;
2023
Abstract
Agriculture is one of the sectors most exposed to a plethora of risky phe-nomena such as weather, pests and diseases, changes in prices and government poli-cies, instability of global markets. We review the literature on risk management (RM) in agriculture focusing on five key issues: i) why evidence on RM is often controversial; ii) how farmers behave in selecting among available RM instruments; iii) why some of these instruments are underutilised; iv) how to assess the impacts of innovative RM tools to (further) improve their design; v) how agricultural policy measures aimed at increasing the environmental sustainability of the sector could affect RM choices. We address all these issues to get a holistic vision of RM, and point at areas where further analyses are neededPubblicazioni consigliate
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