Yesuf, Mahmud; Bluffstone, Randall A. - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91 (2009) 4, pp. 1022-1037
In most low-income countries, rural households depend on mixed rain-fed agriculture/livestock production, which is very risky. Due to numerous market failures, there are few ways to shift risks to third parties. The literature has focused on what determines the responses of households in such...