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include adverse changes in both input and output prices, Agricultural risk can be categorized as production risk, price or … management strategies to overcome risk to greater extent. It is regarded as an essential part of well rounded agricultural … natural hazards. Compared to other traditional risk reducing strategies, such as crop diversification, inter-cropping, mixed …
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applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the … paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in … three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and …
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Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both...
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supports these assumptions. An empirical application of the arbitrage equations provides evidence that risk aversion and …
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This study compares farm operators’ risk perceptions and actual realization of risk attitudes revealed through off … that risk loving farmers are more likely to employ risk management strategies. …
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Farming systems research for wet-season non-rice upland crops in Cambodia is being conducted with the overall aim of poverty reduction and food security for farmers in the Provinces of Battambang and Kampong Cham. Some of these cash crops exhibit low and variable incomes, especially when grown...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 02/15/06.
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Copy on AgEcon Search replaced with a revised copy 2/14/06.
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management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates …, risk analysis indicates CRP would be the preferred strategy for some risk-averse managers. …
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perceived post-harvest grain loss as an imminent risk, and that instant sales of grains after harvest are triggered by temporary … crops sales, and by an impending risk of post-harvest grain loss and the limited capacity to prevent it. While specific …
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