cereal production, but mostly in specific agroecological zones and for households who diversify away from a particular low-productivity … to recent studies of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships (e.g. Jochum et al. 2020), the results suggest that … in Ethiopia, differences in the yields of particular cereals in the crop mix explain the diversity effect, rather than …

This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production risk in the highlands … of Ethiopia. Using a moment-based approach, the analysis uses a stochastic production function capturing mean, variance … income minus a risk premium (reflecting the cost of risk). We find that the effect of diversity on skewness dominates its …

and temporally affecting cropping pattern and productivity. Drought incidences and prolonged dry days during crop growing … season are the leading challenges of agricultural production in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study characterizes the rainfall … and drought events aligning with wheat growing season in the southern region of Ethiopia, particularly of Hadiya zone …

, the hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance with regard to aggregation biases in the underlying risk … exposure of aggregated yield time series is presented. The set of problems that arouse during the evaluation of the risk … specific objectives of both chapters are listed, weather risk in agriculture is reconsidered and the scope of risk ... …