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Technical efficiency, production risk, and sharecropping : the case of rice farming in Chile
Quijada, Francisca; Salazar, César; Cabas, Juan - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-16
Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems suchas landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the landshares the benefits and risks of the results with tenants. Therefore, land tenure systems differ...
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Governing Agrarian Risks
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012
Risks management studies in the agri-food sector predominately focus on the technical methods and the capability to perceive, prevent, mitigate, and recover from diverse risks. In most economic publications the risks are usually studied as other commodity regulated by the market supply and...
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The single farm payment and income risk in Irish farms 2005-2013
Knapp, Edward; Loughrey, Jason - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 5 (2017) 9, pp. 1-15
to increase investment, production and ultimately income in the sector. This paper studies data from 927 farms in the …
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Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology : evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
Salazar, César; Rand, John - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 25 (2016), pp. 1-37
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in Chile, applying sample selection and discrete choice...
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Turkish Lessons : Embargo-Related Risks
Uzun, Vasily - 2016
Russia's embargo on food imports from Turkey will trim Turkey's exports to Russia by some $1bn, nearly 60% of Turkey's total agri-food exports to Russia. Produce exports will be hit hardest. The embargo may have a severe impact on Russia's tomato, grape and tangerine markets. Turkish supplies...
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Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity
Vijesh, Krishna; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2014
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
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Risk events in sheep rarming in Bulgaria
Harizanova, Hristina; Bartos, Tsvetana Harizanova; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 11-15). 2021
The aim of the research was to find some of the most often occurred risk events in sheep farms in Bulgaria. 22 sheep … farms in Bulgaria were surveyed and questionnaire information was collected from them in 2020.As a result of the study, it … was found that the number of farms in which a risk event had occurred in the last 5 years was almost equal to the number …
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Farm/crop portfolio simulations under variable risk : a case study from Italy
Rosa, Franco; Taverna, Mario; Nassivera, Federico; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 7 (2019) 8, pp. 1-15
Important sources of risk in agriculture are yield and price fluctuations caused by unpredictable and uncontrollable events, inducing income volatility and adding considerable complexity to farmers’ decisions. The literature suggests that these events could affect farmers’ risk aversion in...
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Transgenic Crops, Production Risk, and Agrobiodiversity
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2015
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147914
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COVID-19 and Idiosyncratic Food Dearth Risk Resilience in Nigeria
Ojo, Idowu Oladeji - 2020
This study examined the interplay of COVID-19 and Idiosyncratic Food Dearth Risk Resilience in Nigeria; focusing on Oyo State as case study. A multistage sampling technique was used to elicit primary data from 210 rural crop farmers in the study area using a semi-structured questionnaire. CARE...
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