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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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Valuing meteorological services in resource-constrained settings : application to smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Altiplano

Brausmann, Alexandra; Flubacher, Moritz; Lechthaler, Filippo - 2019

Changing climate and weather patterns have resulted in reduced agricultural productivity in some parts of the world and put pressure on global food security. Availability and improved quality of meteorological information is seen as a potentially propitious means of adaptation to changing...

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Soil Quality and Fertilizer Use Rates Among Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya

Marenya, Paswel; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2011

Studies of fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa have been dominated by analyses of economic and market factors having … to do with infrastructure, institutions, and incentives that prevent or foster increased fertilizer demand, largely … ignoring how soil fertility status conditions farmer demand for fertilizer. We apply a switching regression model to data from …

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Nitrogen Fertilizer Use in Agriculture Among Marginal and Small Farmers in India : Review of Important Drivers

Pani, Saswat Kumar; Jena, Damodar; Subudhi, Rabi; Rath, … - 2021

size of farmers to use nitrogen fertilizer. However, sarcastically the intensity of using nitrogen fertilizer in … quality. The use of nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture is being driven by various factors related to economic, social … small farmers to use nitrogen fertilizer? …

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Management of agrarian risk (English)

Bachev, Hrabrin - In: Economic Thought journal (2013) 2, pp. 76-99

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the risk management in the agri-food sector. First, it specifies the diverse (natural, technical, behavioral, economic, policy etc.) type of agrarian risks, and the...

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Management of agrarian risk (Bulgarian)

Bachev, Hrabrin - In: Economic Thought journal (2013) 2, pp. 50-75

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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - 2013

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by the farmers’ financial environment. Binding credit-market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S. - 2013

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089789

Leveraging optimal portfolio of Drought-Tolerant Maize Varieties for weather index insurance and food security

Awondo, Sebastain; Kostandini, Genti - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 47 (2022) 1, pp. 45-65

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