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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...
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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
Bird, Samuel S. - 2020
This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro … an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A …
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