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108 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 848 Agricultural risk and resilience papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The study identifies the challenge of climate change impacting agricultural production. The study also identifies the challenge of small-scale farmers lacking the resources and knowledge to adapt to climate change. The challenge of conflicting previous studies on climate change awareness in South Africa is also identified.

    Climate Change and Small-Scale Agriculture in the Eastern Cape Province: Investigating the Nexus of Awareness, Adaptation, and Food Security · 2024 · DOI

  • The study only considered small-scale farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, - The study used a cross-sectional research design, - The sample size was limited to 200 farmers

    Climate Change and Small-Scale Agriculture in the Eastern Cape Province: Investigating the Nexus of Awareness, Adaptation, and Food Security · 2024 · DOI

  • Originality/Value — This study offers novel, context-specific empirical evidence on Malaysia’s first agricultural takāful scheme, STTP, from an institutional perspective by examining its implementation framework and key operational and business challenges, thereby contributing to the limited literature on agricultural takāful in Malaysia.

    Addressing Climate Risks Through Agricultural Takāful: An Institutional Perspective on Agrobank’s Paddy Crop Takaful Scheme In Malaysia · 2026 · DOI

  • Research Limitations/Implications — The analysis is limited to the perspectives of Agrobank officials and product documentation.

    Addressing Climate Risks Through Agricultural Takāful: An Institutional Perspective on Agrobank’s Paddy Crop Takaful Scheme In Malaysia · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite several studies documenting the effect of adaptive capacity on food security in the Horn of Africa, relatively little is known about factors influencing adaptive capacity and its association with household food security in Somalia.

    Factors influencing household adaptive capacity and its association with food security in Somalia · 2025 · DOI

  • However, the precise influence of agricultural insurance on diverse facets of agricultural economy development remains under explored.

    Can agricultural insurance play a protective role? Evidence from China’s agriculture · 2025 · DOI

  • This study stands apart from existing literature by uniquely focusing on the relationship between the green economy and food safety within the African context, which remains underexplored despite the continent’s pressing environmental and food security challenges.

    Pragmatic investigation of the effect of green and low-carbon economies on food safety in Africa · 2024 · DOI

  • Although the human development index (HDI) is recognized for its pivotal role in mitigating mortality resulting from natural disasters, the exact extent of its impact on fatalities remains unclear.

    Human development and disaster mortality: evidence from India · 2024 · DOI

  • Capturing stochastic dependence among heterogeneous perils. Optimising a green-finance control that feeds back into the loss dynamics. Addressing the modest sample size and limited historical observations, which warrants caution in generalising the findings.

    Dynamic Pricing of Multi-Peril Agricultural Insurance via Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Copula Dependence and Reinforcement Learning · 2026 · DOI

  • modest sample size, - limited historical observations, - the empirical findings should be interpreted as an illustration of the framework's operational feasibility

    Dynamic Pricing of Multi-Peril Agricultural Insurance via Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Copula Dependence and Reinforcement Learning · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to understand the impact of climate change on agricultural production and the role of agricultural insurance in managing climate risks. There is a need to characterize the dependence structure between climate change, agricultural disasters, and agricultural insurance indemnity.

    Climate change-induced agricultural disasters and policy-based agricultural insurance: empirical findings from China · 2026 · DOI

  • The bootstrap-based Kendall's tau estimate (0.081) shows marginal statistical significance (p-value 0.052), and while bias-corrected confidence intervals confirm positive correlation at the 5% level, the paper does not conduct sensitivity analyses examining how results vary across different subsample periods, geographic regions, or disaster magnitude thresholds that might define 'major' versus 'minor' events differently.

    Climate change-induced agricultural disasters and policy-based agricultural insurance: empirical findings from China · 2026 · DOI

  • Static paradigms have failed to interpret the time-varying characteristics of transmission pathways and price decoupling. There is a need for a novel framework to analyze the dynamic evolution of price transmission within China's hog-feed supply chain.

    Asymmetric tail risk spillovers in feed-swine value chains: a time-frequency network approach · 2026 · DOI

  • Rural households face structural challenges in managing income fluctuations and accessing health services. Limited access to credit and savings mechanisms exacerbates the impact of income shocks on healthcare utilisation. Seasonal employment patterns and limited financial systems in low and middle-income countries exacerbate the impact of income shocks on healthcare utilisation.

    INCOME BETWEEN HARVESTS AND ILLNESS: SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL EARNINGS AND HEALTHCARE UTILISATION IN RURAL CAMEROON · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding how income seasonality affects health-seeking behaviour in rural Cameroon. Prior work has focused on high-income economies, where comprehensive insurance systems and social protection mechanisms insulate health expenditure decisions from short-term income shocks.

    INCOME BETWEEN HARVESTS AND ILLNESS: SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL EARNINGS AND HEALTHCARE UTILISATION IN RURAL CAMEROON · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests that future research should exploit more granular data on climate-risk-specific insurance products once such information becomes available. The study highlights the need for more research on the importance of institutional quality in moderating the effect of weather extreme events on firms' performance.

    Weathering the storm: do insurance coverage and local governance moderate the impact of climate events on firms’ performance? · 2026 · DOI

  • The empirical approach produces relatively coarse estimates, particularly in the tail region. The study is limited by the availability of data, with only 32 observations of average shallot farm income per harvest season over the period 2014-2024.

    Risk Analysis of Shallot Farm Income Using D-vine Copula-Based Monte Carlo Simulation · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the evaluation of income risk of shallot farm. The study addresses the limitation of available data and methods for evaluating income risk.

    Risk Analysis of Shallot Farm Income Using D-vine Copula-Based Monte Carlo Simulation · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of evidence on the causal impact of publicly provided primary health care and publicly funded health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure due to climate-sensitive diseases. Prior studies have focused on the effectiveness of primary health care in reducing catastrophic health expenditure, but have not considered the impact of climate change.

    Causal Impact of Primary Care and Publicly Funded Health Insurance on Catastrophic Health Spending From Climate-Sensitive Diseases in India · 2026 · DOI

  • In contrast, the impact of PFHI on CHE remains inconclusive. Finally, district-level mortality data is limited in developing country contexts, which restricts our ability to assess whether higher PHC or PFHI coverage translates into improved health outcomes beyond financial protection.

    Causal Impact of Primary Care and Publicly Funded Health Insurance on Catastrophic Health Spending From Climate-Sensitive Diseases in India · 2026 · DOI

  • The study relies on cross-sectional survey data, which may not capture causal effects. The study has a limited sample size of 441 households.

    What drives coastal disaster resilience at the household level? deciphering coastal household-level economic, social, and infrastructure robustness (CHESIR) determinants · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research can build on the study's findings to develop more comprehensive frameworks for assessing household-level disaster resilience. Future research can apply the study's CHESIR indicators to other coastal communities.

    What drives coastal disaster resilience at the household level? deciphering coastal household-level economic, social, and infrastructure robustness (CHESIR) determinants · 2026 · DOI

  • Empirical studies examining livelihood resilience at the household level remain limited, particularly within a sustainable livelihood framework. There is a need to analyze the resilience of agricultural livelihoods in Kutawaluya District using a mixed-methods approach.

    VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF FARMER HOUSEHOLD LIVELIHOODS IN KARAWANG REGENCY, WEST JAVA · 2026 · DOI

  • livelihood resilience farmers' losses Sodality: Jurnal Sosiologi Pedesaan | Vol. 14 (1) 2026 | 5 METHODS This research uses mix-methods. The quantitative method involves sampling from a population and employing a questionnaire for data collecting. The questionnaire comprises inquiries that facilitate the exploration of data and facts. The reliability test results show that the composite reliability values for all variables are >0.6, so they can be considered reliable. Additionally, the VIF values are >5, indicating no multicollinearity in explaining the influence of the independent variables, on the dependent variable. These results suggest that the questionnaire demonstrates strong internal consistency, indicating that the items effectively measure the intended constructs (Roberts et al., 2021). Table 2.

    VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF FARMER HOUSEHOLD LIVELIHOODS IN KARAWANG REGENCY, WEST JAVA · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing research has limited attention to the productive effects of social security on farmers' investment behavior. There is a gap in understanding the impact of social security programs on farmland management investment.

    Do rural social security programs encourage farmland management investment? Evidence from pension and medical insurance in China · 2026 · DOI

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