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Building synergies between social protection and smallholder agricultural policies

The paper explores how social protection and agricultural policies interact, creating either synergies or conflicts between them. […]

Modelling Agricultural Production Risk and the Adaptation to Climate Change

A model that integrates biophysical simulations in an economic model is used to analyze the impact […]

Assessing Opportunities for Agricultural Insurance and Risk Coping Strategies: In Dong Thap, Thai Binh and Vinh Phuc Provinces, Vietnam

Summarizing opportunities and barriers to agricultural insurance in Vietnam. This report summarizes results of market research […]

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 […]