Crop Biodiversity, Risk Management and the Implications of Agricultural Assistance

dc.contributor.author	Di Falco, Salvatore.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-10T14:01:26Z	en
dc.date.available	2010-05-10T14:01:26Z	en
dc.date.issued	2004	en
dc.identifier.citation	Di Falco, S., & Perrings, C. (2004) "Crop Biodiversity, Risk Management and the Implications of Agricultural Assistance" (Working Paper No. 0084) Department of Economics, National University Ireland, Galway.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10379/993	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of financial assistance to farms on crop biodiversity in an uncertain setting. The findings reveal that risk aversion is an important driving force for crop biodiversity conservation. Risk averse farmers can hedge against the uncertainty they face by allocating land to different crop species. However, policies intended to stabilize revenues by supporting particular species may alter this link by delinking crop biodiversity from the management of revenues risk.	en
dc.format	application/pdf	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	National University of Ireland, Galway	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Paper;No. 0084	en
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
dc.subject	Economics	en
dc.title	Crop Biodiversity, Risk Management and the Implications of Agricultural Assistance	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.description.peer-reviewed	peer-reviewed	en
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