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Hydrological Drought-Indexed Insurance for Irrigated Agriculture in a Highly Regulated System

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Hydrological Drought-Indexed Insurance for Irrigated Agriculture in a Highly Regulated System
المؤلفون: Miguel Angel Valenzuela-Mahecha, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Hector Macian-Sorribes
المصدر: Agronomy, Vol 12, Iss 9, p 2170 (2022)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Agriculture
مصطلحات موضوعية: hydrological drought, index insurance, irrigation water management, decision support system, Jucar river basin, Agriculture
الوصف: Water scarcity is an increasingly recurring problem for irrigated agriculture in Mediterranean regions. It is, therefore, necessary to establish technical and financial measures to enable irrigators to deal with this problem. This study presents a new index-based drought insurance scheme in an irrigation district in the Jucar river basin in Spain, a highly regulated water system. Three insurance scheme options were evaluated and, the values of the fair risk premiums, the maximum compensation, and the deductible franchise were established. These insurance schemes were designed in agreement with the preexisting drought system operating rules to reduce moral hazard and adverse selection. Risk-reducing and effective evaluation methods were used to determine the insurance coverage’s viability for irrigators: standard deviation gross margin, minimum gross margin, and RMSL. The proposed insurances were also evaluated using synthetic hydrological time series generated with a stochastic ARMA model through a basin-wide water resource simulation model developed in the DSS Shell AQUATOOL. Financial indicators, such as the basis risk and claim ratio were applied to analyze the economic feasibility for insurance companies. The results show that a suitable and efficient option is an early-bird contract combined with a trigger of emergency or alert state in a multi-year contract. This type of specialized insurance helps to fill the existing gap in traditional insurance schemes for irrigated crops and offered additional coverage to farmers under drought and water scarcity conditions.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2073-4395
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/9/2170; https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4395
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12092170
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/5442bbe093e8473c86f306d20239356e
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.5442bbe093e8473c86f306d20239356e
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20734395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy12092170