Price vs. weather shock hedging for cash crops: Ex ante evaluation for cotton producers in Cameroon

Ecological Economics

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-80

  Leblois, Antoine ^a   Quirion, Philippe ^b   Sultan, Benjamin ^c  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cash crop; Index based insurance; Price risk; Weather

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CASH CROPPING; CLIMATE EFFECT; COTTON; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC PLANNING; INSURANCE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DETERMINATION; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

CAMEROON;

EID: 84896456430     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.021     Document Type: Article

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