intake—the share of the less expensive, low-quality coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the …In Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers' caloric … quality premium for the best-quality rice has been consistently on the rise in the last decades. It thus seems that the role …

evaluate the net welfare impact of reductions in rice tariffs and to compare this to the alternative policy of targeted … benefits to higher income households and an adverse impact on poor net rice producers even when the substantial efficiency … switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more efficient tax instruments. These policy conclusions are likely to be robust …

First, this paper shows that rice varietal development in Nigeria has been lagging behind that of other developing … countries in Asia and Latin America, due partly to insufficient investment in domestic rice R&D. The paper then illustrates …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … independently and in a bundled package. Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to pay for drought-tolerant rice …€™ valuation of the rice increases. Farmers value insurance on its own, but even more so when bundled with the drought …

assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development …

. We then present a yield function approach that models technology advances and policy interventions to improve rice … rice yield changes to be linked with both biophysical and socioeconomic conditions. The results indicate that rice …

outcome would occur for rice, with high-quality rice used for both domestic consumption and exports markets certified non … India: cottonseed oil, soybean oil, brinjal (eggplant), and rice. We find that GM food labeling would generate a specific …-GM and most of the remaining rice labeled as GM. In each of the cases, labeling would generate significant adjustment costs …

transform its domestic rice sector and become more competitive with imports in order to ultimately displace them over time …. Preliminary results show that import restrictions alone will not be effective at achieving self-sufficiency in rice production …. While there is a huge potential to increase the competitiveness of local rice, even this will not be sufficient to displace …