Climatic variability is a major constraint to improved productivity and profitability in dryland grazing systems. This paper reports the physical and economic benefits obtained from incorporating tactical responses in risk management strategies for dryland sheep production systems constrained by...

</titre> The banana sector in Ecuador is unique compared with other main exporting countries : many small and medium producers operate alongside large national and multinational companies. And while differences between these different production units are minimal in terms of productivity at the plot...

Climate change is likely to have a profound effect on many agricultural variables, although the extent of its influence will vary over the course of the annual farm management cycle. Consequently, the effect of different and interconnected physical, technical and economic factors must be modeled...

This paper analyses the effect of climate change on temperature, rainfall, irrigation requirements and water availability in a Mediterranean area, integrating bio-physical and economic relationships. The probability distribution function (PDF) of climate variables shows that the near future will...

Passage of the 1996 Farm Bill marked a dramatic departure in federal farm policy as the longstanding deficiency payment program was replaced with non‐risk responsive transition payments. In light of the departure, subsidized savings has been proposed as a mechanism to provide risk protection...

Purpose – From the perspectives of the probable replacement of the national calamity funds by multi-peril grassland insurance, the purpose of this paper is to estimate demand for grassland production insurance. Design/methodology/approach – A discrete stochastic programming model with a...

1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors -- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed) -- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed -- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed -- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or...