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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1551030
This article is part of the Research Topic Climate Change and Its Impacts on Agricultural Land and Water Resources View all 4 articles
Does Extreme weather affect the resilience of agricultural economies? Analysis based on agricultural insurance
Provisionally accepted- 1 Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China
- 2 China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Against the backdrop of global warming and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, effectively harnessing the effectiveness of agricultural insurance in supporting agriculture and enhancing the resilience of the agricultural economy is of universal significance for countries across the globe. This paper, based on the panel data of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) in China from 2011 to 2022, selects 15 indicators from three dimensions (the pressure layer, the state layer, and the response layer). By employing the entropy method, it measures the resilience of the agricultural economy. Furthermore, through the application of a fixed effects model and a moderating effects model, it conducts an empirical analysis of the impacts of extreme weather changes, including extreme high temperatures, extreme low temperatures, and extreme precipitation, on the resilience of the agricultural economy, and examines the moderating role of agricultural insurance in this context. The study reveals that extreme weather changes characterized mainly by extreme high temperatures are not conducive to the enhancement of the resilience of the agricultural economy, while financial support for agriculture can effectively mitigate the negative impacts of extreme weather on the resilience of the agricultural economy. Accordingly, from an international perspective, the policy recommendations proposed in this paper put forward a policy framework centered around promoting the high-quality development of agricultural insurance and facilitating the enhancement of the resilience of the agricultural economy. Based on this framework, suggestions are put forward that may help alleviate the adverse impacts of extreme weather changes on agricultural production and further steadily boost the resilience of the agricultural economy.
Keywords: agricultural economic resilience, extreme weather, Agricultural insurance, Entropy method, Evidence from China
Received: 24 Dec 2024; Accepted: 03 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence:
huiling lu, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China
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