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creators_name: Koesling, Matthias
creators_name: Ebbesvik, Martha
creators_name: Lien, Gudbrand
creators_name: Flaten, Ola
creators_name: Valle, Paul Steinar
creators_name: Arntzen, Halvard
title: Risk and Risk Management in Organic and Conventional Cash Crop Farming in Norway
ispublished: pub
subjects: 8policy
subjects: 9education
subjects: 2farmecon
keywords: arable farming, farmers' goals, multivariate analysis, risk perception, risk responses, socio-economic variables, questionnaire survey, ØKORISK
abstract: This study presents empirical insight into organic and conventional cash crop farmers' perceptions of risk and risk management strategies, and identifies socio-economic variables linked to these perceptions. The data originate from a questionnaire survey of farmers in Norway. The results indicate that organic farmers perceived themselves to be less risk averse than conventional farmers. For both groups, crop prices and yield variability were the two top rated sources of risk, followed by institutional risks. The two groups evaluated risk management strategies quite similarly; favoured strategies were good liquidity and to prevent and reduce crop diseases and pests. The farmers' evaluation of sources of risk and choice of risk strategies depended on various socio-economic variables. The importance of institutional risks implies that policy makers should be cautious about changing policy capriciously and they should consider strategic policy initiatives that give farmers more long-term reliability. 
date: 2004
date_type: published
publication: Acta Agriculturæ Scandinavica Section C - Food Economics
volume: 1
number: 4
publisher: Taylor & Francis
editors_name: Lund, Mogens
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citation:    Koesling, Matthias; Ebbesvik, Martha; Lien, Gudbrand; Flaten, Ola; Valle, Paul Steinar and Arntzen, Halvard   (2004) Risk and Risk Management in Organic and Conventional Cash Crop Farming in Norway.   Acta Agriculturæ Scandinavica Section C - Food Economics, 1 (4), pp. 195-206.        
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