This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese farmers are likely to adapt to … endogeneity of inputs. Model results suggest that although climate change can potentially reduce rice production, farmers will …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … independently and in a bundled package. Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to pay for drought-tolerant rice …€™ valuation of the rice increases. Farmers value insurance on its own, but even more so when bundled with the drought …

assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development …

adaptation strategies will be critical for maintaining food security, rural employment, and foreign exchange earnings. This paper …. We then present a yield function approach that models technology advances and policy interventions to improve rice … rice yield changes to be linked with both biophysical and socioeconomic conditions. The results indicate that rice …

India: cottonseed oil, soybean oil, brinjal (eggplant), and rice. We find that GM food labeling would generate a specific … mandatory labeling policy for GM food. We focus on four products that would likely be the first affected by such a regulation in … outcome would occur for rice, with high-quality rice used for both domestic consumption and exports markets certified non …

Adaptation and Mitigation by Rudy Rabbinge •Reducing Methane Emissions from Irrigated Rice by Reiner Wassmann, Yasukazu Hosen … Climate Change: Household Impacts and Institutional Responses by Futoshi Yamauchi and Agnes Quisumbing •The Constructive Role …

restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade. The impact of … rice QR generates a set of effects where consumer price reduction dominates nominal income decline. Thus, real income … improves and poverty declines across household groups, but the net effects are lower in rural than in urban households. The …

Rice is grown on more than 140 million hectares worldwide and is the most heavily consumed staple food on earth. Ninety … percent of the world's rice is produced and consumed in Asia, and 90 percent of rice land is—at least temporarily—flooded. The … unique semiaquatic nature of the rice plant allows it to grow productively in places no other crop could exist, but it is …

"Higher world food prices have led many governments in developing countries to adopt policy measures to mitigate the … evaluate the net welfare impact of reductions in rice tariffs and to compare this to the alternative policy of targeted … benefits to higher income households and an adverse impact on poor net rice producers even when the substantial efficiency …