Previous literature has mostly used crop diversification indices to quantify the extent of crop diversification used by farmers. Indices are useful in assessing the number and proportion of crops in a farmer's portfolio. However, they often overlook the heterogeneity of the crops in their...

The lack of reference price information is often regarded as one of the most pervasive aspect of incomplete commodity markets in developing countries. Previous studies on the effects of price information emphasize the market participation and performance of rural households. This paper argues...

Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...