The paper has examined trends and patterns in crop diversification in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir for the … period 2007-08 to 2013-14 using Simpson Index of Diversification (SID) and estimated the determinants of crop diversification … replacing the food crops, either via specialization or diversification for reaping the higher benefits from the horticulture …

discuss the opportunity to combine horizontal diversification and vertical diversification (especially, cocoa processing) in …

group and over 75% of their earnings are utilized to ensure their food security. Issues related to diversification have been … discussed by researchers for a long period and they have been trying to relate diversification to the developmental prospects … attempt has been made to measure diversification using Herfindahl- Hirschman index, known as the most popular method, it was …

Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this paper centered on analysing the impact of Crop Diversification (CD) on … investigated for potential endogeneity in crop diversification. Instrumental Variable (IV) method was employed to correct for … endogeneity in crop diversification. The results of the IV estimation reveal that failing to account for endogeneity in the basic …

diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first … presents economic and political diversification side by side in a cross-country framework and discusses how they interact and … effects of insufficient economic and insufficient political diversification. Dominated for decades by the fishing industry …

Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We … examine the extent of diversification among Vietnamese households, from agriculture into waged employment and entrepreneurship … and whether this diversification is welfare enhancing. We also examine the factors determining this transition from …