Dear Colleagues,

Our world is facing increasing socio-economic and environmental pressures on our food supply. As the global population continues to grow to an estimated 9.6 billion by 2050, innovative solutions are required to meet the demands. Meanwhile, the effects of climate change have put further strain on food security and led to an increase in the vulnerability of the agricultural sector. Further, agriculture has an important impact on global greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption. Therefore, there is an urgent need to transform production and consumption decisions on the farm to achieve a more sustainable agricultural sector. The academic and research community constitutes a very important group of stakeholders who can strongly contribute to achieving sustainable agribusiness through knowledge generation, innovation, data, technical analysis, and training the next generation of students in building a sustainable agribusiness future.

The Special Issue on “Risk Management and Actuarial Science for Sustainable Agribusiness” promotes an interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on the risk management and actuarial science aspects of agribusiness sustainability. The desired focus areas of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: climate change, food security, data analysis, technology, and insurance design. Other topics in risk management aspects regarding the production and supply chain of the agriculture sector are also welcome. In particular, recent literature in the area of agricultural risk management and insurance has focused on insurance participation, microinsurance, weather index-based insurance, basis risk, farm financial stability, etc. This Special Issue makes an important contribution to extending works on these research areas under a special sustainability lens. We especially welcome presentations of research with an inter-/multidisciplinary approach

Dr. Hong Li
Prof. Dr. Lysa Porth
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• agribusiness
• risk management
• actuarial science
• food security
• agri-insurance
• climate change
• yield forecasting
• financial stability
• policy
• supply chain