The international diversification of assets by investing in agricultural commodities has manifested increasingly in … a risk measure called β. What is particularly important about this model is that it is currently applied in the industry …

Much has been written to show the importance of diversification for rural African households because of the … pull factors explaining that risk and adverse shocks which characterize farm activities urge rural population to diversify … into more profitable non-farm activities. But less attention has been paid to the distinction between two diversification …

diversifying farm activities. The paper shows that regional identity can stimulate farmers to take up diversification and can also …

This paper evaluates the consequences of considering environmental and economic risk in the analysis of cost … environmental risk associated with nitrogen leaching variability, since a change to crops with lower average load also results in … lower variability of nitrogen emissions. A farmer's degree of risk aversion has some effect on the economically optimal …

of on-farm diversification. Using linked census data for Upper-Austria from 1980, 1985 and 1990 we provide evidence that … farms. A significantly lower degree of diversification (higher degree of specialisation) as well as a stronger reduction in … diversification over time is also reported for businesses operated by older, less educated, part-time farm operators. The analysis of …

production systems, particularly through diversification opportunities. In this paper we focus our analysis on the conditions …

specifically on the diversification strategies of (larger) farms and (smaller) crofts related to the multifunctionality of …/crofts in this remote area have chosen specific diversification or specialisation strategies, and briefly considers their …

This study links food insecurity status of farming households in the study area to their income diversification … (COC) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. Income diversification strategies of the households …. Income diversification strategies have significant influence on food insecurity at x2<0.001. Households that depend more on …

This paper investigates on-farm income diversification determinants, using data from the Italian 2010 census. The … selection model. Model results are quite consistent with previous literature findings and confirm the relevance of risk exposure … reduction as on-farm diversification strategy determinants. Results stress also that, besides farm characteristics and …

developing economies. Recent investigations have found the level and type of diversification to be a significant factor in … influence agaricultural diversification on determining higher levels of viability at the farm level. …