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-equilibrium ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty …
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sector (conventional and specialty eggs) using data from 2009 to 2011. Our results indicate multiple uncertainty sources …
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Uncertainty and risk are quintessential features of agricultural production. After a brief overview of the main sources …
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sector (conventional and specialty eggs) using data from 2009 to 2011. Our results indicate multiple uncertainty sources …
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-equilibrium ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty …
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We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with surveybased information on their technology adoption...
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A farmer’s uncertainty preferences can play a large role in how he makes production decisions on the farm. We attempt … to understand how farmers’ household characteristics as well as past harvest shocks affect uncertainty preferences of …
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Increasing agricultural production, while decreasing its impact on the environment is a global challenge. Sustainable innovations, such as microbial applications, can play an important role in this light. However, risk averse farmers are often reluctant to adopt such innovations. In this study,...
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This paper investigates the relationship between risk aversion, crop diversification, and food security. In poor agrarian countries, farmers’ risk aversions are inherently linked to their food security. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to understand the mechanism through which...
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