@phdthesis{oai:doshisha.repo.nii.ac.jp:00028176, author = {Rola, Armand Christopher Casiple}, month = {2021-05-17}, note = {The primary objective of this dissertation was to seek an answer to the question of how agricultural insurance can potentially be an effective and efficient coping mechanism so that the poorest of the poor in isolated rural areas can avoid falling into the poverty trap amid rising global natural disasters in the most exposed region of East Asia and the Pacific. Observations in the field were conducted to investigate the disaster experiences and characterization, coping strategies, but the main focus was on farmer experience on agricultural insurance in two types of elevation (lowland and upland) and program implementation of the insurance providers in the developed country of Japan and the Philippines as a representation of the developing world., application/pdf}, title = {A comparative study of farmers' disaster coping capacities and the impacts of agricultural insurance : a case from Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and Laguna Province, Republic of the Philippines}, year = {} }