This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing the debate of essential measurements and constraining interventions necessary to measure poor yields in Mexico.
This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing the basic elements involving saving on the inputs of seed, fertilizer and water for rice in Haiti.
This presentation was presented by Vern Long from the USAID Bureau for Food Security describing how achieving sustainable food security is making progress.
Relying on a randomized rollout strategy, this paper reports the results of a multi-year impact evaluation that spanned the 5-year life of the program.
This presentation took place at Rome, Italy on June 13, 2012 discussing the comparisons between contracts being linear or in lump sum for farmers once preference parameters are considered.
In this paper we use panel data on horticultural growers in Nicaragua to address the determinants of adoption into the supermarket channel, the determinants of “duration” as supermarket suppliers, and the effect of time to adoption and duration on farm capital and farm technology choice.
We explore whether farm land and non-land assets determine the participation of tomato growers in modern markets in Nicaragua, and how farmers’ duration as supermarket suppliers affects their farm capital accumulation and technology.
This presentation took place in Lima, Peru on July 11, 2011 discussing the fiscal support the insurance industry needs to better support smaller farm holders.
This presentation took place in Lima, Peru on July 11, 2011 and explores the benefits of better public and private sector organization in efforts exploring index insurance.
Though widely heralded, this effort to create rents in an otherwise competitive market is unlikely to succeed. By analyzing two ways in which the mechanism is undermined by arbitrage: over-certification and quality-invariant pricing.
