Income Risk Management in Agriculture
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2000.
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| Colección: | Agriculture and food.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705700106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""AGENDA OF THE WORKSHOP AND LIST OF SPEAKERS Paris, France, 15-16 May 2000""; ""Monday, 15 May""; ""Opening statement""; ""Session 1. Overview""; ""Session 2. Transfer of risk along the food chain""; ""Session 3. Reduction of risk using futures markets""; ""Tuesday, 16 May""; ""Session 4. From risk pooling to safety-nets""; ""A. Insurance systems""; ""B. Agricultural, fiscal and social safety nets""; ""Session 5. Policy implications and recommendations""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""
- ""Part I. APPROACHES TO INCOME RISK MANAGEMENT IN OECD COUNTRIES""""OVERVIEW OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS STRATEGIES AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION""; ""Introduction""; ""Types of risk""; ""Risk management process""; ""Box 1. Definition of terms""; ""Policy issues""; ""Objectives""; ""Income risk management strategies at the farm household level""; ""Identification, analysis and assessment of risk""; ""Financial mechanisms: capital and debt management""; ""Figure 1. Percentage share of property income in total income of farm households""
- ""Figure 2. Percentage share of debts in total assets in EU Member countries, 1995""""Table 1. Share of debts in total assets, by farm size""; ""Diversification of income sources""; ""Diversification of productions/varieties""; ""Diversification of non-farm income sources""; ""Figure 3. Percentage share of farm income in total income of farm households""; ""Production techniques""; ""Figure 4. Percentage share of irrigated land in total land area (A) and crop and permanent crop area (B)""; ""Marketing techniques""; ""Spreading sales""; ""Pooling of risk""
- ""Supply management (public or private)""""Transfer of risk along the food chain""; ""Table 2. Percentage share of US farm production coordinated by vertical integration""; ""Table 3. Percentage share of the value of selected commodities produced under production contracts in the United States, ""; ""Table 4. Percentage share of the value of selected commodities produced under marketing contracts in the United States, ...""; ""Box 2. Transfer of risk along the food chain""; ""Market risk management: Futures markets""
- ""Table 5. Main exchanges trading commodity futures contracts and options""""Box 3. Reduction of risk using futures markets""; ""Insurance (risk pooling)""; ""Farm households� use of government programmes in income risk management""; ""Government intervention in income risk management strategies used by farmers""; ""Why does government intervene in risk management?""; ""Where and how does government intervene to modify risk to farmers?""; ""Figure 5. Evolution of the structure of support to producers""; ""General economic and regulatory function""; ""Agricultural policy""
- ""Figure 6. Producer Support Estimates as a percentage of the total value of agricultural production, 1997-99""
