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Federal-Provincial Crop Insurance Program - An Integrated Environmental-Economic Assessment

This report evaluates the environmental and economic impacts of the Federal-Provincial Crop Insurance Program which provides protection to participating agricultural producers against crop yield risk. It estimates the regional and national impact that Crop Insurance has on resource use, and provides estimates of the associated environmental consequences.

For more information on this publication, please e-mail: Econ_Research@agr.gc.ca.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
Introduction
Section 1: Background to Crop Insurance and Review of Environmental Assessments 3
Section 2: Impact of Agricultural Management Practices on the Environment
Section 3: Economic Basis for Dealing with Risk
Section 4: Impact of Crop Insurance on Resource Utilization and Production
Section 5: Environmental Assessment
Section 6: Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix A: Yield Distributions
Appendix B: Erosion Model
Appendix C: Update on the 1994 Crop Insurance Environmental Assessment
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acronyms

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Publication: 1957/E • ISBN: 0-662-26977-2 • Catalogue: A22-172/199E • Project: 98-009-r