"This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agricultural … productivity in less favored production environments of a developing agricultural economy. Drawing production data from household … richness increases farm productivity. Variety richness also reduces yield variability but only for high levels of genetic …

The African Development Bank (AfDB), in commissioning this report to be prepared by the International Food Policy …

educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … policy, this paper investigates which financial products best improve farmers’ productivity, resilience, and welfare, and … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face …

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 …