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 …

diversify their income portfolio and buffer against risk. Such a risk management strategy may become more challenging as global …

lack access to both modern instruments of risk management—such as agricultural insurance, futures contracts, or guarantee … funds—and ex post emergency government assistance. Such farmers rely on different “traditional” coping strategies and risk …-mitigation techniques, but most of these are inefficient. Formal and semiformal arrangements—such as contract farming, joint-liability …

farm households are therefore made within environments that are affected by risk. Because of poorly developed or absent … involve risk. Better understanding risk behavior will be essential for identifying appropriate farm-level strategies for … adaptation to climate change by low-income farmers. Despite risk's potentially central role in farm investment decisions, there …

regional exchanges may be more feasible than the establishment of national commodity exchanges, and (c) the goals of risk …

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), has been proposed as a pan-Africa drought risk pool to insure against drought risk in …

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 …