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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance : The Case of Mexico

Fuchs, Alan - 2013

Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021

female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or …

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Batista, Catia - 2019

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....

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Rainfall Risk and Fertility : Evidence from Farm Settlements During the American Demographic Transition

Grimm, Michael - 2016

farm and non-farm households within counties and over time. The results suggest that increased rainfall risk does indeed … shows that this effect is reduced if risk management devices such as irrigation systems, formal financial institutions or … machinery emerge. The findings contribute to the understanding of the demographic transition in the US and in risk-prone areas …

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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda

Fishman, Ram - 2019

Many development programs are short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability. Using a novel randomized phaseout research method, we provide experimental tests of phaseout effects of an extension program designed for women...

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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram - 2017

Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...

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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...

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Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

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