Challenges of insuring weather risk in agriculture

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-199

  Odening, Martin ^a   Shen, Zhiwei ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crop insurance; Data scarcity; Weather risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946712901     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AFR-11-2013-0039     Document Type: Article

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