, for diversification, it would be effective to organize hamlet activities based on an open and wider human network rather …

Employment diversification is a major livelihood strategy in rural areas and is thus a focal point of the ongoing rural … development debate. The issue of non-farm diversification is undoubtedly complex and its determinants are difficult to identify … aspects with regard to modelling NFRE and employment diversification. NFRE dynamics are closely interrelated with the …

lack of entitlements to fundamental livelihood assets which urges poor rural farmers into livelihood diversification to … also reveals that poor households attempt to smooth their consumption and income through livelihood diversification, among …

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 …

is to develop a multiperiod mathematical risk programming model able of assisting water user associations with the … and irrigation system application rates in the model. Risk simulation procedures are used to generate an appropriately … correlated inter- and intra-temporal risk matrix for the programming model. A combination of subjectively elicited distributions …

, in anticipation of having a poor season, farmers minimize downside-risk, which is perceived as far more likely than … that the use of higher N rates (relative to the region’s average) can reduce risk in a highly variable dryland environment … like the Mallee region in south-eastern Australia. Overall, typically risk-averse Mallee farmers with low starting N seem …

oligopsonist powers could not be confirmed. Instead traders’ margins depend on costs, risk and uncertainty that they face …

depend on farmers’ socio-economic characteristics such as wealth, while individual risk preferences seem to be less important …

natural hazards. Compared to other traditional risk reducing strategies, such as crop diversification, inter-cropping, mixed … 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 …