Ebook: Income Risk Management in Agriculture
Author: OECD
- Tags: Agricultural insurance -- Congresses, Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Congresses, Agriculture -- Finance -- Congresses, Agriculture and state -- Congresses, Farm income -- Congresses, Farm risks -- Congresses, Business & Economics, Agricultural Economics
- Series: Agriculture and food Income risk management in agriculture.
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Language: English
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Various risks affect the income and the welfare of farm households. A large number of strategies are available to deal specifically with income risk. They exist against a general background of widespread government intervention that modifies the risks faced by farmers. In the context of agricultural policy reform, a challenge for policy makers is to better define the role of public policy versus market-based Read more...