Determinantes de la adopción de instrumentos de gestión del riesgo en la agricultura de regadío

Agriculture is an economic activity subject to different sources of risk, mainly related to climatic and market conditions. To manage agricultural risks, farmers can implement a wide range of instruments, such as crop diversification, the use of sales contracts, or agricultural insurance, among others. The main objective of this paper is to analyze, from a comprehensive perspective, the main factors explaining the adoption of a set of eleven risk management instruments considering a sample of irrigated farmers in a Mediterranean agricultural system using logistic regression models. As a complementary objective, this Guerrero-Baena et al. ITEA-Inf. Tec. Econ. Agrar. (en prensa), Vol. xx: 1-25 1 * Autor para correspondencia: dolores.guerrero@uco.es Cita del artículo: Guerrero-Baena MD, Gómez-Limón JA, Sánchez-Cañizares S (en prensa). Determinantes de la adopción de instrumentos de gestión del riesgo en la agricultura de regadío. ITEA-Información Técnica Económica Agraria. Vol. xx: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.12706/itea.2021.001 2 Guerrero-Baena et al. ITEA-Inf. Tec. Econ. Agrar. (en prensa), Vol. xx: 1-25