depletion of assets. We examine migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China. Using a … responding to risk. One of the principal means of smoothing income is through the diversification of income sources, including … longitudinal data set comprised of households in nine provinces in China from 1991 through 2006, we are able to test for the effect …

We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given … between the C4 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) and United States in China. Demand estimates are used to project … how U.S. prices affect China’s imports by country. In comparing demand projections, results show that the relationship …

markers has fed a renewed interest in the search for alternatives to help producers in developing countries manage their risk …

can be used as a form of risk management and examines the relationship with crop insurance in order to better define … optimal risk management strategies. …

This work is a first attempt to analyze the effect of weather derivative availability on the risk management strategies … study. Numerical solutions show farmers improve their well-being by reducing their risk exposure. …

beneficial to farmers by diversifying risk onto separate land plots that usually have heterogeneous growing conditions. Applying … the risk-reduction hypothesis and indications that land fragmentation may be conducive to efficiency. This second finding … may seem counter-intuitive but is also supported by similar studies. We further argue that accounting for risk preferences …

policy from income support to risk management. A mix of price- and revenue-based commodity programs as well as yield- and … revenue-based insurance products provide crop producers a complex portfolio of risk management tools and choices. To make … effective risk management decisions, crop producers must integrate farm programs and crop insurance alternatives in a …