Textbooks and articles on farm management stress the importance of the management capacity of the fanner with respect to his farm results. However, explicit definitions together with an elaboration of this concept are hard to find. In this article, aspects of management capacity are grouped...

Producers' demand for a public-private crop insurance program in the Netherlands is surveyed. A novel aspect was the inclusion of the producer's belief in disaster relief. Despite emphatic assertions that future governmental involvement would only be directed at a hypothetical insurance program,...

This article analyzed the impact of risk perception, risk attitude, and other farmer personal and farm characteristics on the actual purchase of catastrophe insurance by Dutch dairy and arable farmers. The specific catastrophe insurance types considered were hail-fire-storm insurance for...

Optimization of individual stages within a production-marketing chain (PMCh) may cause a suboptimal result of the PMCh as a whole. Market imperfections and conflicting interest may be the causal factors. Although vertical integration is often mentioned as the conventional solution, certain...

Food safety problems such as the BSE and dioxin crises focused attention on traceability systems and the certification of such systems. This study analyzes the status and perspectives of traceability systems and certification schemes, and reviews their potential costs and benefits. Results...

This article analyzed the impact of risk perception, risk attitude, and other farmer personal and farm characteristics on the actual purchase of catastrophe insurance by Dutch dairy and arable farmers. The specific catastrophe insurance types considered were hail-fire-storm insurance for...

Coping with Crisis Risk in European Agriculture Copyright The Agricultural Ecomomics Society and the European Association of Agricultural Economists 2006.