Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by...

Subsistence farmers in low income countries are confronted with multiple risks. Hence, small scale farmers have developed several strategies to cope with weather related risks in order to self-insure against weather risks. Recent developments on global food markets have increased food price...