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Demand for Complementary Financial and Technological Tools for Managing Drought Risk
Ward, Patrick; Spielman, David J.; Ortega, David; … - 2015
Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the developing world. Financial and technological innovations that mitigate these risks have the potential to greatly benefit farmers in areas prone to such risks. In this study we...
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Changing Composition of Private Investment in Indian Agriculture and Its Relationship With Public Investment and Input Subsidies
Kumar, Anjani - 2020
assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …
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The Impact of India’s Farm Science Centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) on Farm Households’ Economic Welfare : Evidence From a National Farmers Survey
Kumar, Anjani - 2019
The paper examines the impact of access to India's farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households' welfare using household-level data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households conducted by India's National Sample...
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How are Farmers Adapting to Climate Change in Vietnam? Endogeneity and Sample Selection in a Rice Yield Model
Yu, Bingxin; Zhu, Tingju; Breisinger, Clemens; Nguyen, … - 2013
leveraging agriculture for development. This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese …
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Changes in Ghanaian Farming Systems : Stagnation or a Quiet Transformation?
Houssou, Nazaire; Johnson, Michael; Kolavalli, Shashidhara - 2016
This research was designed to understand better the patterns of agricultural intensification and transformation occurring in Africa South of the Sahara using the Ghanaian case. The paper examines changes in farming systems and the role of various endogenous and exogenous factors in driving the...
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The Feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) : Smartphone Pictures for Affordable Crop Insurance
Ceballos, Francisco - 2019
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products to protect their livelihoods from catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a tool to improve the quality and affordability of...
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A Poverty-Sensitive Scorecard to Prioritize Lending and Grant Allocation : Evidence from Central America
Hernandez, Manuel A. - 2016
and improve their welfare. The evaluation results show that the highest-ranked projects generally have a larger economic …
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Microinsurance Decisions : Gendered Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Clarke, Daniel; Kumar, Neha - 2015
Bangladesh it is often assumed that women are less involved in agriculture, and therefore agricultural insurance might not be of …
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Is Agricultural Insurance Fulfilling its Promise for the Developing World?
Kramer, Berber; Hazell, Peter; Alderman, Harold; … - 2021
Agricultural insurance has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multi-peril crop insurance, and...
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Dairy Contract Farming in Bangladesh : Implications for Welfare and Food Safety
Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful - 2019
Contract farming is emerging as an important institutional innovation in the high value food chain in developing countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment to explore the determinants of...
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