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The Farmer’s Perspective: Climate Risk and Risk Management in Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Sector

STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE: Gender-lens investing in climate and disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions

The Differential Risk Transfer: a new approach for reducing vulnerability to climate-related hazards
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A Review of Agricultural Production Risk in the Developing World

Many of the poor in the developing world rely on agriculture for their livelihood. Unfortunately, agricultural […]

Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data

This study evaluates new multi-scale, multi-indicator methods for assessing the vulnerability of crop production to drought […]

Reservoir Drought Prediction Using Support Vector Machines

In Taiwan, even though the average annual rainfall is up to 2500 mm, water shortage during […]

Improvement of Drought Resistance in Crops: From Conventional Breeding to Genomic Selection

Drought stress is the major factor limiting yield and yield stability of crops. To improve plant […]

Using Temperature Vegetation Drought Index for Monitoring Drought Based on Remote Sensing Data

Drought is one of the major natural disasters in China, it has extremely affected national food […]

Assessing and Addressing Climate-Induced Risk in Sub-Saharan Rainfed Agriculture: Lessons Learned

A defining characteristic of many rainfed tropical agricultural systems is their vulnerability to weather variability. There is […]

Coping with drought in Zimbabwe: Survey evidence on responses of rural households to risk

The major risk facing rural households in Zimbabwe is that of drought. We use panel data […]

The Review and Reflection of Chinese New Agricultural Subsidy System

In recent years, China has gradually cancelled agricultural tax which has been imposed for more than […]

The Malawi agricultural input subsidy programme: 2005/06 to 2008/09

Malawi’s implementation of a large-scale agricultural input subsidy programme has attracted significant international interest. This paper […]

Economic analysis of drought risk: An application for irrigated agriculture in Spain

This paper describes a two-part methodology for managing the risk posed by water supply variability to […]

Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households

This paper evaluates the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households’ […]

Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion

Climate has obvious direct effects on agricultural production. The reverse is more apparent than ever as […]

A review of principles for sustainable pest management in rice

This review addresses four principles on which sustainable pest management in rice is to be grounded. […]

The relative importance of drought and other water-related constraints for major food crops in South Asian farming systems

Variation in water availability is a major source of risk for agricultural productivity and food security in South […]

Supply Chain Risk Assessment: Cocoa in Ghana

Cocoa holds a unique position in Ghana’s economy. It has long played a crucial role in […]

Overlooking the Obvious: The Opportunity for Herbicides in Africa

Twenty years ago, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s Dr. I. Okezie Akobundu clarified the gap between crop […]

Palm Oil Industry Prepares For Rocky 2012

outheast Asian palm oil prices may come under pressure as a looming global economic recession weighs […]

Crop Case Study: GMO Golden Rice in Asia with Enhanced Vitamin A Benefits for Consumers

Golden Rice is genetically modified to provide beta-carotene in the rice grain and it could potentially […]

Breeding for improved drought tolerance in maize adapted to southern Africa

The difficulty of choosing appropriate selection environments has restricted breeding progress for drought tolerance in highly-variable […]

ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANT RICE & WHEAT: SOUTH ASIA

Improving the productivity of cereal crops in South Asia, specifically rice and wheat, has become a […]