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Obstacles to crop diversification and cotton harvest mechanisation: Farm survey evidence from two contrasting districts in Uzbekistan
Petrick, Martin; Djanibekov, Nodir - 2016
The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on … dominated by the conventional cotton and wheat rotation introduced after 1991. The second district is home to a wide range of … hands-on experience of harvest mechanisation in the traditional cotton region so far. In addition to the state delivery …
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Kazakhstan's cotton sector reforms since independence
Oshakbayev, Dauren; Taitukova, Regina; Petrick, Martin; … - 2018
current paper analyses the nature and effects of state regulation in the cotton sector. In the early 2000s, it was considered … host a "cotton cluster". In the following years, private producers and investors turned away from cotton, and cotton area … and output fell substantially. We argue that the cotton sector performance after 2007 shows how ill-designed regulation …
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Policy Options for Rice and Corn Farmers in the Face of Seasonal Climate Variability
Domingo, Sonny N.; Gonzales, Kathrina G.; Mina, Christian D. - 2009
In the face of seasonal climate variability, the smallholder farmers, particularly those in rural communities, are among the most adversely affected. As a way to address this, together with concern on low productivity, the Philippine government has been implementing a range of risk management...
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Crop Insurance: Security for Farmers and Agricultural Stakeholders in the Face of Seasonal Climate Variability
Domingo, Sonny N.; Reyes, Celia M. - 2009
Crop insurance is a risk management tool designed to even out agricultural risks and address the consequences of natural disasters to make losses more bearable, especially to the marginalized farmers. In the Philippines, the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) implements and manages the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421138
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Evidence on Informal Insurance in Rural Zimbabwe
Hoogeveen, Hans - 2001
The test on the presence of full insurance that is commonly employed does not take intoaccount that households also rely on buffer stocks to shield their consumption from incomeshocks. In this paper a test is developed that deals with this omission. It is shown that in thepresence of partial...
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The potential capital requirement for a minimum prices insurance scheme for wheat, maize, and rape seed
Url, Thomas; Kaniovski, Serguei - 2020
In 2005 the EU lowered the guaranteed minimum prices for crops in its Common Agricultural Policy and stopped market interventions. Consequently, prices started to fluctuate more intensively, and farmers' incomes are now subject to higher price volatility. A crop price insurance scheme could...
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Resilienz von regionalen und globalen Wertschöpfungsketten der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft
Bahrs, Enno (contributor); Bieling, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2023
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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012
The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...
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Risk, insurance and wages in general equilibrium
Mobarak, Ahmed Musfiq; Rosenzweig, Mark - 2013
We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...
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Overview of drought relief provisions in the FY2020 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act
Fischer, Bart L.; Outlaw, Joe L.; Knapek, George M.; … - 2020
The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University develops and maintains data to simulate 94 representative crop, dairy, and livestock operations in major production areas in 30 states. The chief purpose of this analysis is to project the economic viability of those farms by...
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