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The impact of Access to Credit and Training on Technological Adoption: A Case of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

Nakano, Yuko; Kajisa, Kei - 2011

Using an extensive household-level data set collected in Tanzania, this paper investigates the determinants of the technological adoption of rice cultivation and of paddy yield. We especially focus on the impact of credit and training on the adoption of modern technologies. Based on empirical...

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Weather Insurance of Wine - How Quantity and Quality Regulations Affect Risks

Phelippe-Guinvarc'h, Martial - 2007

To develop weather insurance, GROUPAMA builds a general model of agronomic crop yielddensity function. This approach is applied for cereal, industrial products, wine and fruits.From the density function, weather risk premium is computed. The wine-producing practicesdisturb our approach of risks....

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Alternative Hedging Strategies in Maize Production to Cope with Climate Variability and Change

Fuhrer, Jurg; Beniston, Martin; Calanca, Pierluigi; … - 2007

Climate change with increasing climate variability is likely to alter risks in agriculturalproduction. The effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks forrain-fed grain maize production was investigated for current (1981-2003) and future (2070-2100) climates in...

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MODELLING THE MARKET OUTLOOK AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES FOR THE WHEAT SECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Meyer, Ferdinand H.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Poonyth, Daneswar - 2003

In this study, the structure of the South African wheat market is analysed using economic theory and econometric modelling techniques. The developed model is used to make baseline projections regarding the supply and use of wheat in South Africa and to analyse the impacts of various policy...

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International and Internal Market Integration in Indian agriculture: A study of the Indian Rice Market

Jayasuriya, Sisira; Kim, Jae H.; Kumar, Parmod - 2007

There has been concern about the effectiveness of India's agricultural policy reforms adopted in recent years as part of the overall policy liberalisation process. These concerns have been strengthened by studies of spatial market integration of major agricultural commodity markets, such as the...

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Transient Health Shocks and Agricultural Labor Demand in Rice-producing Households in Mali

Larochelle, Catherine; Dalton, Timothy J. - 2006

Malaria and other transient illnesses have been recognized as factors constraining economic development in tropical countries. The purpose of this paper is to determine the direct and the indirect impact of transient illness shocks, caused primarily by malaria but also including other tropical...

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Food Pricing Policy and Rural Poverty: Insights from Maize in Kenya

Mghenyi, Elliot W.; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2006

maize marketing board in Kenya. We consider both supply and demand responses and the accompanying adjustments in rural labor … to generate poverty rankings between the distribution of income with the effects of the government marketing operations … marketing operations have exacerbated rural poverty in all regions of the country except the region from which the largest part …

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Breaking the "Fertilizer Poverty" and Food Insecurity Traps in Smallholder Maize Based Farming System in Southern Africa: Experiences and Lessons from Soil Fertility Network/Econom...

Mekuria, Mulugetta; Waddington, Stephen R.; Siziba, Shephard - 2004

Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...

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Efficiency of Selected Risk Management Instruments - An Empirical Analysis of Risk Reduction in Kazakhstani Crop Production

Heidelbach, Olaf - 2006

Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this insurance type shows clear advantages compared to...

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THE PERFORMANCE OF WEATHER DERIVATIVES IN MANAGING RISKS OF SPECIALTY CROPS

Fleege, Trevor A.; Richards, Timothy J.; Manfredo, Mark R. - 2004

California specialty crop growers are exposed to extreme price volatility, as well as considerable yield volatility caused by fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, and other specific weather events. Weather derivatives do provide a promising market-based solution to managing risks for...

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