them and other workers. After showing how land constraints and the productivity dynamics outside agriculture might prevent …This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural …

the huge need of increasing the productivity in this sector. If increase in agriculture productivity requires both an … high intensive agriculture as a risk factor for farmers' and rural inhabitants' health. This survey shows that whether … irrigated fields or integrated pest management) considerably reduce this risk, while at the same time, increase the agriculture …

where rain fed agriculture is the dominant production system. We combine health data originating from the 2008 household …

that aims at separating attitudes toward risk, imprecision and conflict and at determining if there is a demand for … under risk than under ambiguity (embracing here imprecision and conflict), revealing that people consider ambiguous … insurance and people are more willing to insure in a risky situation than in an ambiguous one. This certain taste for risk can …

the stakes of political competition, and therefore reduce the intensity of the conflict over political power. In …

mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … conflict only when those conditioning factors are controlled for. Furthermore, decentralization dampens all forms of ethnic …