Description: This report proposes a methodology to isolate crop yield improvement due to technological change and favorable and unfavorable weather.

Description: This report predicts farm-level crop yield distributions in the absence of farm-level yield data.

Description: Agricultural insurance can help producers invest in more productive, but potentially riskier, agricultural practices. The authors provide an example of forage index-based insurance implemented in Ontario, Canada.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that develops a fully integrated approach to spatial reinsurance questions and maps the nonlinear dependencies of loss cost ratios across geographic regions in a country via a copula method.

Description: This abstract describes a study that reviews by simulation the current tools available for testing trends in time series and constructs and compares alternative probability distribution models, using a unique and comprehensive data set that represents the entire crop insurance sector of Canada.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a framework for the development of livestock insurance and examines how livestock insurance may be developed, using Canada as an example.