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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1510953
This article is part of the Research Topic Environmental Resilience and Sustainable Agri-food System Management View all 8 articles

The Impact of Policy-Oriented Agricultural Insurance on China's Grain Production Resilience

Provisionally accepted
Tao Zheng Tao Zheng Guiqian Zhao Guiqian Zhao *
  • Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China

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    As an effective tool and public welfare product of the state to support and benefit agriculture, policyoriented agricultural insurance has unique advantages in dispersing agricultural risks and guaranteeing stable grain production and supply. Based on provincial panel data from 2002 to 2021, this paper analyzes the impact of policy-oriented agricultural insurance on grain production resilience. It constructs a comprehensive indicator system to assess grain production resilience and examines the impact of the insurance premium subsidy policy and the insurance development level on grain production resilience. The study finds that policy-oriented agricultural insurance significantly improves grain production resilience and passes the robustness test. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the policy-oriented agricultural insurance development level in major grain producing areas has a significantly positive impact on grain production resilience, and the impact is higher than that in non major grain producing areas. Additionally, the impact of policy-oriented agricultural insurance on grain production resilience in high risk areas is more pronounced than that in low risk areas. At the same time, the mechanism analysis shows that policy-oriented agricultural insurance can have a positive impact on grain production resilience by improving agricultural technology progress, land transfer, and grain cultivation specialization.

    Keywords: Policy-oriented agricultural insurance, Grain production resilience, Grain security, Insurance premium subsidy policy, Insurance development level

    Received: 14 Oct 2024; Accepted: 30 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zheng and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Guiqian Zhao, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China

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