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Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation under Global Change
(kassel university press, 2016)
Agricultural systems will have to adapt to socio-economic and climate change in order to sustain food security in the future. However, these adaptations will likely drive negative environmental impacts, e.g., the loss of biodiversity. A key question, therefore, is how food security can be achieved, and, at the same time, how biodiversity can be preserved in the future. This dissertation aims to address this question by using the scenario and simulation methodology applied in four distinct studies. Study 1 investigates ...
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Crop Insurance and Risk Mitigation: Experiences from India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Crop losses due to various reasons, particularly because of extreme weather situations, is a common phenomenon in agriculture and can prove to be catastrophic in the numerous rain fed fields of backward regions. It is against this backdrop that the development of sustainable mitigation strategies, one of them being crop insurance, comes into picture. It is worth noting in this context that agriculture insurance is under developed in developing countries and a World Bank study (2010) reveals that many state sponsored ...