A5058840496- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Newcastle University
2016-2023
Flood risk and associated impacts are major societal policy concerns following widespread flooding in December 2015, which cost the UK economy an estimated £5 billion. Increasing advocacy for alternatives to conventional hard engineering solutions is accompanied by demands evidence. This study provides a systematic review meta‐analysis of direct evidence effect tree cover on channel discharge. The results highlighted deficiency From 7 eligible studies 156 papers reviewed, show that...
The development and uptake of agricultural insurance products by farmers in developing countries has been universally disappointingly low. This paper investigates farmers' preferences willingness to pay for a variety products, including indemnity insurance, index benchmark hybrid (indemnity-index) the Bono East Regions Ghana. We employed latent class multiple indicators, causes (MIMIC) models using discrete choice experimental data from 383 cashew growers. results show that are heterogeneous...
In recent times the Ghanaian vegetable sector faces declining export volumes and a ban on major exports from profitable European Union Markets. One of main reasons for this was poor coordination quality control between farmers exporters in supply chain. We examine nature contracting factors that influence contractual breaches such as side-selling find contracts are type arrangements mainly governed by seasonal informal (relational) agreements. Contracts mostly specify terms quantity produce...