Agriculture plays a significant role in Lesotho's economy. Lesotho is among the poorest countries in Southern Africa, with fifty-seven percent of the population living below the poverty line. About seventy percent of the population lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture for their...

Agriculture plays a significant role in Lesotho's economy. Lesotho is among the poorest countries in Southern Africa, with fifty-seven percent of the population living below the poverty line. About seventy percent of the population lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture for their...

Marketing tools, in addition to their role in persuasion and serving as a bridge between production and consumers, reduce pre-purchase risks. This role has received less attention in the literature. This study highlights marketing's role in reducing consumers' purchasing risk. We present our...

This paper explores the association between short-term migration in the household and feminization of farm management in rural India. The analysis uses a nationally representative data set covering 35,604 rural Indian households in the year 2013. There is gender disaggregated information on who...

In Deutschland ist das Interesse an (neuen) Risikomanagementinstrumenten für die Landwirtschaft in letzter Zeit stark gestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt in diesem Working Paper eine systematische Zusammenstellung und Bewertung ausgewählter Instrumente zum Risikomanagement in der...

This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have...

Since the early 1990s, liberalization of the seed market in Tanzania has attracted several foreign companies that now market maize hybrids in the country. In this article, we analyze the impacts of proprietary hybrids on maize yields, production, and household living standards. We build on a...

Inflorescence, mapping the development of interdisciplinary studies on the sago palm in the University of the Philippines / Myfel Joseph D. Paluga [and three others] -- The indigenous dry sago starch extraction process of Argao, Cebu in the Central Philippines / Dulce M. Flores -- Ethnohistory...

Most studies analyzing the impact of human capital in agriculture use the measure of years of schooling of the producer as a proxy for decision-making skills. An alternative measure is used in this paper. The measure was derived by grading decision-making and execution skills of a sample of...