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Managing risk in agriculture a development perspective edited by Ashok K Mishra, Subal C Kumbhakar, Gudbrand Lien
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Risk management--Developing countries.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Developing countries.
- Farm risks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxfordshire, UK Boston, MA CABI [2023]
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Overview
- Section I: Understanding and Modeling Risk, Attitudes and Preferences
- 1. Principles of Good Practice in Dealing with Risk in Agriculture: A Review of Agricultural Decision Analysis
- 2. Risk Preferences, Price Uncertainties and Production Risk: A Survey
- 3. Subjective Probabilities and Farmers' Decision-Making in Developing Countries
- 4. Strategic Risk and Collective Action in Agriculture
- 5. Assessing the Impact of Risk-Reducing Strategies on Food Security: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
- Section Ii: Using Experimental Economics to Measure Risk, Preferences and Risk Management Strategies
- 6. Eliciting Farmers' Risk and Uncertainty Preferences Using Contextualized Field Experiments in Developing Countries: A Pilot Study
- 7. Examining the Role of Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Management Decisions in Emerging and Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence
- 8. How to Measure Risk Attitudes Among Poor Rural Households: An Overview of Popular Risk Elicitation Methods
- 9. Agricultural Risk Management and Technology
- 10. Farmer Risk Preferences and Willingness to Pay for African Rice Landrace Seed: An Experimental Choice Analysis
- 11. Smallholders' Willingness to Pay for Alternative Types of Crop Insurance in China
- 12. Role of Risk Aversion and Insurance Adoption in Extreme Climatic Shocks: Evidence from Indian Paddy Growers
- 13. Attitudes toward Risk and Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drought-Tolerant Maize and Weather Index Insurance in West Africa
- Section Iii: Climate Change, Risk and Risk Management
- 14. Finance Utilization and Chili Contract Fulfillment
- 15. Assessing the Climate Resilience of Semi-Arid Farming Systems in India: Framework and Application
- 16. Risk Perceptions of Climate Change, Risk Preferences and Cacao Farming
- 17. Natural Shocks and Farm Household Behavior: The Consequences of an Earthquake in Pisco, Peru
- 18. Adaptation to Climate Change and Risk Exposure: Insights from Smallholder Wheat Farmers in China
- 19. Cropping System Diversification for Higher Productivity and Resilience of Agriculture: Evidence from India
- 20. Extreme Weather Events and Credit Demand
- 21. How Beliefs about Climate Change Adapt: A Natural Experiment with Evidence on Excess Sensitivity to a Weather Event
- Index
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Managing risk in agriculture
- ISBN:
- 9781800622289
- 1800622287
- 9781800622272
- 1800622279
- Publisher Number:
- 40031987076
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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