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Should The World Emulate US Crop Insurance?
2015-12-17 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: With the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events adversely affecting agricultural outputs and farmers' incomes, commercial crop insurance has been touted as the solution for vulnerable farmers all over the world. Financial and farm interests have been promoting US crop insurance as the solution. It is instructive to consider lessons from the 2012 drought. Driven by the expectation of high maize prices, owing to the maize bio-ethanol mandate introduced almost a decade ago, US farmers...
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Analyzing options for increasing affordability of flood insurance
2015-12-12 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies an approach for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to evaluate policy options for making premiums through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) more affordable for those who have limited ability to pay. Microsimulation is a modeling approach that is well-suited to estimating premiums and future flood damage claims at the individual policyholder level, the report says....
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A&P retiree health, life insurance terminated in bankruptcy
2015-12-12 02:44:53| Grocery - Topix.net
The Pathmark at 1764 Grand Ave. in Baldwin is one of many Long Island supermarkets owned by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. that has closed after A&P filed for bankruptcy.
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A plea from small islands: more insurance for climate change
2015-12-10 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising sea levels and tidal waves are washing away coastlines on many of the 196 inhabited islands of the Maldives, and there is no insurance policy to cover the costs. Global leaders are close to the end of two weeks of talks to try to agree an accord to slow climate change. A draft agreement this week showed countries had made progress on some sticking points but remain divided over several core issues before Friday's deadline. A weak deal could lead to a situation where "insurance will be...
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Crop insurance spared $3 billion in cuts
2015-12-07 18:45:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. Proposed $3 billion in cuts to crop insurance spared by Congress finding offsetting cuts in the highway bill. read more
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