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Agricultural Insurance, Risk Management and Sustainable Development-Series II

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 6704

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kirill A. Zhichkin

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Department «Economic Theory and Economics of the Agro-Industrial Complex», Samara State Agrarian University, Kinel 446442, Russia
Interests: agricultural insurance; forecasting; planning; government regulation; economics of the agro-industrial complex; economics of households; cadastral valuation; biofuel
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Prof. Dr. Vladimir Nosov

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Technosphere Security Department, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow 117198, Russia
Interests: agricultural production; productivity and efficiency analysis; agricultural insurance, agricultural statistics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Agriculture is being published with the aim of summarizing international experience in the field of agricultural insurance, risk management in agriculture and rural sustainable development. Within the framework of the Special Issue, scientific research aimed at solving a set of problems in the field of ensuring the development of agriculture will be presented, namely:

  • Conducting agricultural production in risky conditions, the use of risk reduction tools and the development of agricultural insurance;
  • The development of scientific and practical potential in order to formulate proposals for the introduction of science-intensive technologies in agriculture;
  • Popularization of fundamental and applied research in the field of agriculture, animal science, zoology, agronomy, plant growing and soil science;
  • Formation of recommendations aimed at improving computer models, information technology, engineering and innovative or digital technologies in agriculture.

Within the framework of the Special Issue, the following topics will be covered: scientific support of innovative development of agriculture; intelligent, digital and automated technologies in agriculture; modern scientific achievements—the practice of the production and processing of crop products; scientific approaches to risk reduction in agricultural production; development of new and improvement of existing areas of agricultural insurance; resource-saving technologies, rational nature management and innovative technologies in the agro-industrial complex; automation and digitalization in the agro-industrial complex; biotechnical systems and technologies in agriculture; feeding farm animals; machines and equipment for selection and seed production; mathematical modeling of applied problems of mechanics in the agro-industrial complex; environmental protection in agro-industrial production; tractor and agricultural machinery; organization of agro-industrial production and agriculture.

This Special Issue will feature the works of scientists, employees of specialized organizations and research centers in the field of agriculture, scientists from various research and educational institutions and representatives of government agencies and businesses.

Dr. Kirill A. Zhichkin
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Nosov
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • agricultural insurance
  • risk management
  • animal science
  • agronomy
  • plant growing
  • soil science
  • sustainable development
  • governance and economics

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The Impact of Agricultural Insurance on Planting Structure Adjustment—An Empirical Study from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
by Zhihui Chai and Xiaoxia Zhang
Agriculture 2024, 14(1), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14010041 - 25 Dec 2023
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Agricultural insurance is a risk management tool developed to guarantee regional production and national food security. Based on survey data from 629 households in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China, this paper examines the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ planting structure. The [...] Read more.
Agricultural insurance is a risk management tool developed to guarantee regional production and national food security. Based on survey data from 629 households in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China, this paper examines the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ planting structure. The results show that: (1) Farmers’ participation in agricultural insurance significantly affects their planting structure, especially lowering the level of specialization in production; insured households are about 3–6% lower than the non-insured, and there is a complementary effect between insurance participation and diversified planting. (2) For different types of farmers, participating in insurance has different effects on their agricultural production structure. Farmers purchasing insurance with low or medium levels in proportion to agricultural income significantly reduce the degree of production specialization. The effect of participation in insurance on large-scale farmers’ adjustment of planting structure is more obvious. For pure grain farmers, participation in insurance will reduce planting specialization by about 3–4%. (3) Participation in agricultural insurance will encourage farmers to plant grain crops, but the effect is small. Therefore, we need to expand the coverage areas, increase insurance types, and improve coverage levels; the products should be more targeted and differentiated, strengthening farmers’ participation in complete cost insurance and income insurance. Full article
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The Impact of Agricultural Insurance on Urban–Rural Income Gap: Empirical Evidence from China
by Saisai Wen, Qin Xiao, Junjie Li and Jianping Li
Agriculture 2023, 13(10), 1950; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13101950 - 06 Oct 2023
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Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2020, this paper analyzes the mechanism and spatial spillover effect of agricultural insurance on the urban–rural income gap using a fixed effect model, an intermediary effect model, and a two-stage [...] Read more.
Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2020, this paper analyzes the mechanism and spatial spillover effect of agricultural insurance on the urban–rural income gap using a fixed effect model, an intermediary effect model, and a two-stage least square method. The results show that agricultural insurance has a significant inhibitory effect on the income gap between urban and rural areas. This inhibitory effect is realized through the path of “improving the development level of agricultural insurance-improving agricultural total factor productivity-reducing the income gap between urban and rural areas”, in which the intermediary effect of agricultural total factor productivity accounts for 19.74% of the total effect. At the same time, the income gap between urban and rural areas in China exhibits typical spatial agglomeration characteristics. The western region has always been the region with the largest income gap between urban and rural areas, while the eastern region is the region with the smallest income gap between urban and rural areas. The development of agricultural insurance has had a spatial spillover effect on the income gap between urban and rural areas, and the development of agricultural insurance in neighboring areas expands the income gap between urban and rural areas in this region. In order to prevent the siphon effect, agricultural insurance investment should be increased in the neighboring regions. The results of this paper support the view of the resource flow model. Finally, we put forward some suggestions for the development of agricultural insurance, improvement in agricultural total factor productivity, and the narrowing of the income gap between urban and rural areas. Full article
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Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience in Agriculture and Their Impact on Sustainable Rural Economy Development: A Case Study of Greece
by Stavros Kalogiannidis, Christina-Ioanna Papadopoulou, Efstratios Loizou and Fotios Chatzitheodoridis
Agriculture 2023, 13(6), 1222; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13061222 - 09 Jun 2023
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Promoting rural development is essential for the general economic transformation of people, hence requiring great attention from different government systems. This study assessed the risk, vulnerability, and resilience of agriculture, as well as its impact on sustainable rural economy development, using Greece as [...] Read more.
Promoting rural development is essential for the general economic transformation of people, hence requiring great attention from different government systems. This study assessed the risk, vulnerability, and resilience of agriculture, as well as its impact on sustainable rural economy development, using Greece as the case study. The study employed a quantitative research approach based on a cross-sectional survey design. A survey questionnaire was used to gather data from 304 Greek farmers. The results show that, although farmers are no longer at risk of being short of food and clothing in Greece, they still face different challenges associated with climate change or low productivity, and this can greatly affect yields if not given great attention. The study showed that increasing farmers’ resilience and the efficacy of risk response are both essential tactics to use in order to effectively combat threats to the residential environment. However, the results show that vulnerability in agriculture has a significant negative influence on rural development. This research demonstrates how the development of a new, beautiful nation must involve improvements to and a guarantee of the safety of farmers’ rural living environments, in order to reduce the impacts of risk and vulnerability, as well as strengthen the nation’s resilience. The results show that, in rural governance, the general preservation of living conditions is not only one of farmers’ top priorities, but is also a crucial factor in enhancing their ability to deal with risks, and is the only route to real rural development. Governments should design their social protection programs to enhance agricultural production, safeguard the lives of the most vulnerable populations, strengthen their resilience, and achieve the broadest possible rural transformation. Full article
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Expectations of the Participants of the Crop Insurance System and Their Implementation
by Martynas Rusteika and Lina Skinulienė
Agriculture 2023, 13(3), 649; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13030649 - 09 Mar 2023
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The manufacture of agriculture production products is the most sensitive to meteorological conditions. The main risks caused by adverse climate factors that Lithuania’s farmers confront are winterkill, hail, storms, and droughts. The aim of the study is to analyze the expectations of crop [...] Read more.
The manufacture of agriculture production products is the most sensitive to meteorological conditions. The main risks caused by adverse climate factors that Lithuania’s farmers confront are winterkill, hail, storms, and droughts. The aim of the study is to analyze the expectations of crop insurance system participants and to reveal the reasons for encouraging/discouraging farms in insuring their crops in Lithuania. All additional means (optimization of crop structure, changes in growing technologies) reduce the reliable harm of extreme climate change, but only technical, organizational means (crop insurance) can mostly reduce the loss of production. The investigation was underway using the analysis of scientific literature. Crop producers’ expectations of risk mitigation are influenced by a variety of factors: age, farm size, farming duration, locality, and farming practice. Farmers assess the government’s given support by way of compensation insurance fees. Farmers analyze the risk of the meteorological phenomenon and indicate that the farm would have huge damage from adverse climate conditions. The main obstacles to crop insurance are these: the farmers are too small for the insurance system; they want to separate risks insurance and to attain more possibilities to choose from; accent development of evaluation and payment of harms after agreeing that the evaluation is objective. Full article
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