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Expert workshop on Guidelines for micro-finance, credit and insurance for small-scale fisheries in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 May 2019.

Published online: 04 Dec 2019

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

The Expert workshop on Guidelines for micro-finance, credit and insurance for small-scale fisheries in Asia was held in Bangkok, Thailand in the perio...

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Improving climate risk transfer and management for climate-smart agriculture: a review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance for scaling up.

Published online: 02 Jan 2019

Authors: Adegoke, J. & Pramod Aggarwal & Rüegg, M. & Hansen, J. & Cuellar, D. & Diro, R. & Shaw, R. & Hellin, J. & Greatrex, H. & Zougmoré, R.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This review consists of a collection of case studies providing the basis for further exploring the function of index-based risk management tools towar...

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Dominant species determine grazing effects on the stability of herbaceous community production at multiple scales in drylands.

Published online: 18 Jan 2024

Authors: Zuo XiaoAn & Gornish, E. S. & Koerner, S. E. & Plas, F. van der & Wang ShaoPeng & Liang MaoWei

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sustainable provision of critical ecosystem services in drylands is reliant on their stability under anthropogenic disturbances. Livestock grazing and...

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Biodiversity as insurance for sapling survival in experimental tree plantations.

Published online: 22 Feb 2017

Authors: Peer, T. van de & Verheyen, K. & Baeten, L. & Ponette, Q. & Muys, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity can insure ecosystems against declines in their functioning by increasing the mean level of ecosystem processes and decreasing the spatia...

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The economic impact of climate change on cash crop farms in Québec and Ontario.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: An, N. & Thomassin, P. J.

Content type: Bulletin

This paper examines the economic impact of alternative climate change scenarios on representative cash crop farms in Quebec and Ontario. Mixed Integer...

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Sustainability: we need to focus on overall system outcomes rather than simplistic targets.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Fisher, L. & Gross, T. & Hillebrand, H. & Sandberg, A. & Sayama, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Many of the global challenges that confront humanity are interlinked in a dynamic complex network, with multiple feedback loops, nonlinear interaction...

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The role of livestock portfolios and group-based approaches for building resilience in the face of accelerating climate change: an asset-based panel data analysis from rural Kenya.

Published online: 04 Nov 2015

Authors: Ngigi, M. W. & Müller, U. & Birner, R.

Content type: Bulletin

This study examines the impact of multiple shocks on assets by employing two waves of a panel data set of 360 rural households in three agro-ecologica...

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People, predators and perceptions: patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves.

Published online: 12 Jun 2013

Authors: Suryawanshi, K. R. & Bhatnagar, Y. V. & Redpath, S. & Charudutt Mishra

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Livestock depredation by large carnivores is an important conservation and economic concern and conservation management would benefit from a better un...

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Climate change and agricultural risk management into the 21st century.

Published online: 09 Oct 2019

Authors: Crane-Droesch, B. A. & Marshall, E. & Rosch, S. & Riddle, A. & Cooper, J. & Wallander, S.

Content type: Bulletin

Programs that help farmers manage risk are a major component of the Federal Government's support to rural America. Changes to this risk-and thus to th...

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Land resilience and tail dependence among crop yield distributions.

Published online: 24 Jun 2015

Authors: Du, X. D. & Hennessy, D. A. & Feng, H. L.

Content type: Bulletin

Rate setting procedures for United States crop yield and revenue insurance contracts employ methods that presume correlations to be state invariant. W...

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