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This paper explores the factors that impact insurance choices. Specially designed survey questions allow one to fully observe the demand tendency by the farmers and partially observe the supply tendency by the insurance company. A joint estimation of insurance decision by both supply and demand...

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This paper presents a study of the global commodity exchange market and identifies trends and direction of development of this institution in the world. It was found that the commodity exchanges were subject to significant changes resulting from the development of the economy and the needs of...

Innovation is essential for agricultural and economic development, especially in today’s rapidly changing global environment. While farmers have been recognised as one of the key sources of innovation, many studies on agricultural innovations continue to consider farmers as adopters of...

A risk management model based on portfolio theory, which accounts jointly for price, quanitity, interest rate, and exchange rate risks, is developed and applied to cocoa and coffee production and exports in the Ivory Coast. Using commodity and financial futures marlets jointly, the results show...