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This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
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Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
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-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences … stabilize their per-capita incomes after the death of a prime-age member. Yet, risk-sharing arrangements appear to spread the … part of the dissertation explores risk-management strategies and investigates the income diversification patterns of farm …
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This study is an empirical investigation of how individual risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of …-economic factors, the results show that as the female farmers' increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned plots goes down … from 2014 and 2015, the results indicate lower productivity on female-owned plots. Controlling for various socio …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a subSaharan African … increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned plots goes down. The study controls for various socio-economic factors …, improved inputs, and policies that support increase in productivity. …
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agricultural productivity through a reduction in weather-associated risks. In the first part, we provide a theoretical foundation …
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Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index has been extensively applied in the literature to measure productivity … compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in European countries, making use of the most-recent data available … from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. The aim of this study is to measure TFP developments in …
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In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The … efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both aggregated as overall index) on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Given that the … agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture …
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global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of the GTAP-W model, which distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated … agriculture and implements water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. The results suggest that a partial … analysis of the main factors through which climate change will affect agricultural productivity lead to different outcomes. Our …
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