efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers …' agricultural efficiency. Simulation results show that improving farmers' agricultural efficiency by investing in farmers' health …"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for …

developing world. Financial and technological innovations that mitigate these risks have the potential to greatly benefit farmers … 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 …

smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet …

for many developing countries to strengthen the contribution their farmers make to national economic growth and poverty …

the demands of small farmers, set priorities, and provide transparency and accountability with regard to funding and …