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A review of types of risks in agriculture: What we know and what we need to know

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This article examined the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture, and the extent to which those studies have addressed the impacts of, and policies to mitigate individual types of risk as opposed to more holistic analyses of the multiple sources of risk with which farmers have to cope with.
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This article is published in Agricultural Systems.The article was published on 2020-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 140 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk management & Financial risk.

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From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges

TL;DR: Five emerging technologies, namely the Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain, toward Agriculture 4.0 are discussed and the key applications of these emerging technologies in the agricultural sector are focused on.
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Agriculture supply chain risks and COVID-19: mitigation strategies and implications for the practitioners

TL;DR: The agricultural supply chains (ASCs) are exposed to unprecedented risks following COVID-19 and it is necessary to investigate the impact of risks and to create resilient ASC organizations as discussed by the authors.
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How do agribusinesses thrive through complexity? The pivotal role of e-commerce capability and business agility

TL;DR: Using a sample of Chinese agriculture firms, it is found that while environmental complexity positively moderates the effects of e-commerce capability on the market capitalizing agility and operational adjustment agility, environmental dynamism does not.
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Climate-resilient strategies for sustainable management of water resources and agriculture

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Shock interactions, coping strategy choices and household food security

TL;DR: The authors investigates how agricultural-based livelihoods in developing countries are often challenged by a multitude of unforeseeable shocks, but economic research mostly focuses on single shocks, and investigates how...
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