System of Rice Intensification in Northern Vietnam by Gina E. Castillo, Minh Nguyet Le, and Kimberly Pfeifer •The Bill …

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 … using a household model simulation that impacts of certain policies, such as the seed subsidy, may be greater (smaller) if …

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 …