First, this paper shows that rice varietal development in Nigeria has been lagging behind that of other developing … countries in Asia and Latin America, due partly to insufficient investment in domestic rice R&D. The paper then illustrates … they are applied to good (poor) varieties. The paper concludes by discussing key policy implications and future research …

Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change. …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … independently and in a bundled package. Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to pay for drought-tolerant rice …€™ valuation of the rice increases. Farmers value insurance on its own, but even more so when bundled with the drought …

assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development …

In Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers' caloric … intake—the share of the less expensive, low-quality coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the … quality premium for the best-quality rice has been consistently on the rise in the last decades. It thus seems that the role …

Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change. …

. We then present a yield function approach that models technology advances and policy interventions to improve rice … rice yield changes to be linked with both biophysical and socioeconomic conditions. The results indicate that rice … variations in impacts and responses, localized policy packages will be key for effective mitigation. Government policies …

mandatory labeling policy for GM food. We focus on four products that would likely be the first affected by such a regulation in … India: cottonseed oil, soybean oil, brinjal (eggplant), and rice. We find that GM food labeling would generate a specific … outcome would occur for rice, with high-quality rice used for both domestic consumption and exports markets certified non …

Adaptation and Mitigation by Rudy Rabbinge •Reducing Methane Emissions from Irrigated Rice by Reiner Wassmann, Yasukazu Hosen …

restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade. The impact of … rice QR generates a set of effects where consumer price reduction dominates nominal income decline. Thus, real income …