: risk, uncertainty, productivity …This paper examines the effects of price uncertainty on agricultural productivity. Appelbaum(1991) provided an …, using a parametric rather than a nonparametric approach to obtain the measurement of price uncertainty and risk. Keywords …

focus on the agricultural sector. Between 1962 and 2008, we find that both specialization and diversification occur for the … diversification of agricultural exports is rather insignificant. Compared to Africa, Brazil appears to have experienced a more … balanced process in terms of both specialization and diversification of its agriculture. African countries’ specific …

survive on diets that are deficiency in proteins and other important nutrients. Agricultural diversification and … diversification (in terms of calorie and protein production) and commercialization on reducing malnutrition in the Eastern province of … diversification and commercialization on reducing malnutrition while GPS results show that higher degrees of diversification reduce …

diversification among Kenya’s smallholder maize growers. We employ a combination of propensity score matching and endogenous switching … differing across segments of maize growers, while the impact on diversification of income sources is not significant in most …

management strategy for several levels of risk aversion. Research Methods Hard red winter wheat grain yield data were produced in … included the per acre cost of chemical as well as the per acre rental rate for ground application. Risk analysis was conducted … treatment cost that would entice wheat producers to use fungicide for several levels of risk aversion. Potential for Generating …

availability. Hence stochastic rainfall poses considerable production risk in the region and developing strategies to maximize the … optimal decisions were not sensitive to variations in price of cotton lint and farmer’s attitude towards risk. …

conclude that the cost of forward contracting for January delivery is partly compensation for the counterparty risk borne by … soybeans for January delivery. This indicates that cash flow risk may be more important than risk of default by the farmer …

Risk management and efficient, well coordinated, flow-scheduling have an increasingly important role in the competitive … of pig and sow space unit under price risk. The values are estimated with two stochastic dynamic programming models. The …