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Rapidly growing subsidization of crop insurance in Europe ignores potential environmental effects

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Fig. 1: EU subsidies for risk management instruments, including premium subsidies, according to EU council regulations.

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  1. Business Economics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Tobias Dalhaus & Niklas Möhring

  2. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Junjie Wu

  3. Production Economics Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Niklas Möhring

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Dalhaus, T., Wu, J. & Möhring, N. Rapidly growing subsidization of crop insurance in Europe ignores potential environmental effects. Nat. Plants 9, 1938–1939 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01569-9

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