seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can … by initial wealth. In response to price increases, wealthy farmers invested more in productive assets, while poor farmers …

Indonesia Family Life Survey for 1993 and 2000, to show which pathways out of poverty were most successful over this period. The … findings suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural nonfarm enterprises is an important route out of rural poverty …

impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive … the short term, and help farmers to respond flexibly to new opportunities and risks in the longer term …

from researchers to extension workers,and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other … farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to address informational inefficiencies and accountability issues. The … extension network: from extension agents to CFs, and from CFs to other farmers. Directly training CFs leads to a large …

percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much … and participation between male and female farmers are due to gender differences in access to inputs, resources, and …

This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop …

smallholder cereal farmers contributed to this growth, but only when the weather was good, and prices were high. Access to markets …

The volume-based Special Safeguard Mechanism was proposed as essential for small, poor farmers and became the proximate … cause of the collapse of the Doha Agenda negotiations in 2008. But is it helpful for these farmers, given that it is likely … to be applied when farm output is depressed and many poor farmers in developing countries need to buy food? Stochastic …