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Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk:
Ward, Patrick S.; Spielman, David J.; Ortega, David L.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools … manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272213
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Farmer preferences for drought tolerance in hybrid versus inbred rice: Evidence from Bihar, India:
Ward, Patrick S.; Ortega, David L.; Spielman, David J.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper addresses the previously unanswered question of whether the private sector might play a future role in developing similar strains through applications of advanced biotechnology, and whether their research and development efforts would benefit poor and vulnerable farmers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132661
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Eliciting farmers’ valuation for abiotic stress-tolerant rice in India:
Arora, Anchal; Bansal, Sangeeta; Ward, Patrick S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
study aims to explore the potential adoption of these risk-reducing technologies. Using discrete choice experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200209