services and reduce market transaction costs. Risk management for agricultural smallholders is covered, together with the … increasing role of insurance as a mechanism for risk management among smallholders. Empirical data are used to illustrate the … involving smallholders in Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) and South America (Peru), implemented by FAO. The lessons …

of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of …

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for … smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A …