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 … risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools …

Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant … dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we … first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food security measurement system should satisfy. We then benchmark existing …

, but the relationship is surprisingly weak and it varies depending on the definition used. Rural poverty is more closely …

reliable empirical estimates of poverty levels has grown dramatically... This paper contributes to the poverty measurement …

attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems." Authors' Abstract …