ทรัพยากร ระบุป้าย: Risk Aversion

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  1. Risk Aversion vs Hunger and Exhaustion

    20-10-2013 This article challenges the long-held assumption that smallholder farmers are risk averse and delay land preparation and planting until they are assured of adequate rainfall, and that they inefficiently used the natural resources available to them. The author proposes that farming operations are...
    Smallholder Farm Family Farm Rural Development Hunger Risk Aversion Risk Management Agricultural Devel... Economic Development

  2. Risk Aversion and Diversification

    20-04-2014 Harry van den Burg wrote in response to theEDN 121 articleabout: …the extent to which risk aversion may have been and even is overestimated, at the expense of hunger and exhaustion, as a leading limiting factor on agricultural productivity. “Whereas I certainly think that the argument has merit…I...
    Risk Aversion Smallholder Agricultural System Subsistence Farming Diversification Rain-fed Agriculture

  3. Why Many African Farmers Choose Not to Engage in Development

    20-04-2014 There is no doubt in my mind that West African farmers want development if that means, among other things, more productive farming. Of course they would rather harvest seven than three sacks of sorghum per hectare. If that is so, why do so many choose not to engage in development projects that...
    Rural Development Agricultural Devel... Risk Aversion Diversification Live Fence Natural Regeneration Dependency Subsistence Farming