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36 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 607 Agricultural risk and resilience papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Current institutional frameworks and policies are a step toward climate resilience Volume 4, Issue 6, 2026 but remain insufficiently implemented to fully insulate GDP from major shocks.

    ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT: IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL DISASTERS ON GDP IN PAKISTAN · 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

  • 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 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

  • The modest adjustment speed coefficient (−0.263) suggests gradual market correction reflecting institutional frictions, but the paper does not specify which institutional barriers (e.g., information asymmetries, premium subsidy delays, claim settlement lags) drive this slow adjustment or propose targeted policy reforms to accelerate the market's response to changing disaster patterns.

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

  • The paper documents that infrastructure-based adaptation (water conservancy) only partially mitigates the cyclical 'warming-drying' trend and flood-drought disasters, yet it does not quantitatively model how combining insurance-based risk transfer with specific adaptation infrastructure investments (e.g., irrigation systems, drought-resistant varieties) could improve long-run agricultural resilience in climate-vulnerable regions.

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

  • The robustness check using the 2010–2022 subsample confirms that upper-tail dependence remains unchanged (10.35% vs. 11.47% in full sample), indicating stability in the dependence structure; however, the paper does not examine whether the market structure and policy changes between 2005–2009 and 2010–2022 (e.g., expansion of premium subsidies, farmer awareness) differentially affect the disaster-insurance relationship across specific agricultural regions or crop types.

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

  • Region 1 (low disaster severity, low insurance payouts) shows weak association between agricultural disasters and insurance indemnity payments, but the paper does not investigate whether this weak linkage reflects genuine low-loss events or represents uninsured agricultural areas due to insufficient coverage during the early expansion phase of China's insurance system.

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

  • The upper-tail dependence coefficient between extreme weather events and insurance claim ratios is estimated at 11.47% for aggregate disasters, but when floods and droughts are analyzed separately, the upper-tail dependence drops to 2.06% and 6.78% respectively; the paper lacks a disaggregated analysis explaining why specific disaster types show such disparate tail dependence structures and how copula model selection should vary by disaster type.

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

  • The paper identifies that China's agricultural insurance premium subsidy system uses a 'lump-sum contracting' mechanism where insurers pay less for major disasters and more for minor ones, yet does not empirically quantify how this institutional design affects the optimal insurance payout structure or compare alternative subsidy mechanisms that could align payouts more closely with actual disaster severity.

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

  • Contrary to common simplifying assumptions, we show that these farmers tend to satisfice rather than optimize as they face intractable and multifaceted uncertainty; they make imperfect use of limited information; they are differently averse to different risks; they make decisions on multiple time horizons; they are cautious in responding to changing conditions; and their diverse risk perceptions contribute to important differences in individual behaviors.

    Farmers’ Risk‐Based Decision Making Under Pervasive Uncertainty: Cognitive Thresholds and Hazy Hedging · 2019 · DOI

  • The underlying cognitive processes, heuristics, and individual-specific factors that shape how agents formulate their subjective beliefs, particularly in complex settings with limited information, is an open question (Gilboa, Postlewaite, and Schmeidler 2008).

    Risk Aversion, Subjective Beliefs, and Farmer Risk Management Strategies · 2012 · DOI

  • While previous studies on agricultural insurance have primarily focused on staple crops and income stabilization, the effects of labor allocation in facility-based intensive agriculture remain underexplored.

    How Does Agricultural Insurance Optimize Labor Allocation? Empirical Evidence from Vegetable Farmers in ShouGuang · 2026 · DOI

  • ABSTRACT Water scarcity is emerging as one of the most binding constraints to food system resilience in Africa, yet its pathways of influence on hunger outcomes remain insufficiently understood.

    Linking Hydrological Stress to Food Security Outcomes: Evaluating SDG 2 Performance in Arid African Regions · 2026 · DOI

  • However, existing mitigation practices, such as gropyokan, remain insufficient to fully control rodent populations, underscoring the need for more integrated and sustainable pest and flood management strategies.

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

  • These findings contribute to the literature on rural health economics and income volatility by providing nationally representative evidence from Cameroon, an area where empirical studies on income seasonality and health access remain scarce.

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

  • By focusing on the Italian context, this study addresses a gap in the literature concerning the role of insurance and governance in buffering businesses against the adverse effects of EWEs.

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

  • Future research may explore alternative copula families and extend the analysis to other commodities and regions. However, this smoothness is driven by distributional assumptions rather than the underlying data structure, as the model does not account for the dependence among income components.

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

  • Future research should consider all six agroecological zones or a wider area to provide a more compre- hensive picture of the subject matter. A major limitation, however, is the geographic scope.

    Do smallholder farmers’ perceptions of production risks impact cost efficiency? Evidence from Ghana · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite extensive research on food security, there still remains a gap in understanding the distinct factors affecting food security within forest communities in conservation zones of the fragile Eastern Himalayas.

    Factors Influencing the Household Food Security of Forest Villagers in Eastern Sub‐Himalayan India · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research could explore the use of this methodology to compare insurers, analyze risk in structured operations of credit and insurance, and evaluate risks at the farm level.

    Enhancing crop insurance analysis with agricultural zoning data · 2024 · DOI

  • However, in practice, crop cuts and other sample-based protocols vary widely in the details of their implementations and little empirical work has documented how alternative yield estimation methods perform.

    How accurate are yield estimates from crop cuts? Evidence from smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia · 2021 · DOI

  • Despite the global emphasis on climate change financing, there is limited information on the status of insurance welfare on climate change adaptation decision in Nigeria.

    Analysis of the Nexus in Agricultural Insurance Welfare and Climate Change Adaptation Decision: Evidence from NigeriaAnalysis of the Nexus in Agricultural Insurance Welfare and Climate Change Adaptation Decision: Evidence from Nigeria · 2020 · DOI

  • Despite growing importance of crop insurance programmes, little is known about the relationship between crop insurance and disinvestment and exit decisions of farms.

    Effects of crop insurance on farm disinvestment and exit decisions · 2019 · DOI

  • Both coping strategies can be economically costly and contribute to the transmission of poverty, yet limited evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of insurance to mitigate these costs in risk‐prone developing economies.

    After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection · 2018 · DOI

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