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Adoption of weather index insurance: Learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Hoddinott, John; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather indexinsurance markets in Ethiopia, were such markets to develop on a large scale. We do this by examining the determinants of willingness to pay for weather insurance among 1,400 Ethiopian households that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850561
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Consumer acceptance of provitamin A orange maize in rural Zambia:
Meenakshi, J. V.; Banerji, A.; Manyong, Victor; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers' willingness to pay. It attempts to examine the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nutrition message, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650929
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Community, inequality, and local public goods: Evidence from School Financing in South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Nishiyama, Shinichi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997315
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Joint estimation of farmers' stated willingness to pay for agricultural services:
Ulimwengu, John; Sanyal, Prabuddha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
In many developing countries, to sustain the provision of agricultural services to farmers, many have advocated the use of service fees. Successful implementation of such schemes requires understanding of determinants of farmers' willingness to pay. In this paper we use a multivariate probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862322
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Valuing the environment in developing countries: Modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver public services on the citizens' willingness to pay for i...
Birol, Ekin; Das, Sukanya - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
In this paper, we employ the choice experiment method to estimate local citizens' valuation of a public intervention that proposes to improve the quality of an important environmental resource, namely, the Ganges River in India. To elicit citizens' willingness to pay (WTP) higher municipality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862325
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How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries
Birol, Ekin; Roy, Devesh; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The literature regarding consumer demand for safer food in developing countries is scant, and the general assumption is that these consumers' willingness to pay (WTP, as an indicator of their demand) is constrained by their low ability to pay (ATP). There are, however, a number of developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862329
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Farmers’ preferences for climate-smart agriculture an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain:
Taneja, Garima; Pal, Barun Deb; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and improve the efficiency of the rice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132693
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Eliciting farmers’ valuation for abiotic stress-tolerant rice in India:
Arora, Anchal; Bansal, Sangeeta; Ward, Patrick S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Abiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress-tolerant technologies have the potential to reduce yield variability and help insulate farmers from the risks posed by these hazards. This study aims to explore the potential adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200209
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Agriculture and the economic transformation of Ethiopia:
Mellor, John W.; Dorosh, Paul A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850557
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Exploring agricultural levers for mitigating the overnutrition burden in India:
Sachdev, H.P.S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850566