Agricultural risk management policies under climate uncertainty

• Published in: Global environmental change Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1726 - 1736
• Main Authors: Antón, Jesús, Cattaneo, Andrea, Kimura, Shingo, Lankoski, Jussi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptation to change; Agricultural insurance; Australia; Canada; climate; Climate change; Crop yield; Environmental problems; farm surveys; Farmers; Farming; Farms; Human ecology and demography; Information; insurance; issues and policy; MaxMin; Policies; Risk; Risk and disasters sociology; Risk management; risk profile; Sociology; Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture; Sociology of leisure and mass culture; Spain; Uncertainty; Victimology; Weather; Australia; Canada; Spain; ANW, Canada; ANE, Spain; Climate change; Uncertainty; Risk management; MaxMin; Agricultural insurance; Adaptation; Crop; Adaptative strategy; Insurance; Agricultural Policy; Farmer

•Four risk management policy options are analysed for Australia, Canada, and Spain.•We distinguish between farming risk and uncertainty in climate and farmer beliefs.•Climate change impact on yield variability affects robustness of different policies.•Extreme events and farmers’ misperceptions on cl...