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Agricultural insurance access and acceptability: examining the case of smallholder farmers in Ghana
Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Weather-related risks thwart agricultural productivity gains especially in the face of climate change. Agricultural insurance serves as a reliable risk mitigation instrument for coping with climate-related hazards.
D. Ankrah +4 more
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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2022 With a gamut of climate variability and change literature that examines rural spaces in the global south, and in the case of Ghana, rural spaces in the northern part, this article turns focus to a less targeted empirical space of peri-urban geography to ...
R. Anum, D. Ankrah, J. Anaglo
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Sustainability, 2022 Smallholder farmers produce over 70% of the world’s food needs. Yet, the socioeconomic conditions of the smallholder farmers are substandard. One of the primary reasons for this unpropitious situation is that they generate modest income by selling their ...
Malni Kumarathunga +2 more
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Sustainability, 2021 Vulnerability assessment varies widely across households, countries, and regions. Though many previous studies assessed vulnerability to climate change, their unit of analysis was aggregate.
Titay Zeleke +4 more
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Agriculture, 2022 China is the world’s largest apple producer, and agricultural cooperatives play an important role in promoting sustainable production in its whole life cycle system.
Juanjuan Cheng +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 A relatively large body of literature has documented the welfare effects of smallholder farmers’ participation in single-commodity output markets.
Julius Manda +5 more
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Agriculture, 2022 Addressing the disproportionate burden of food insecurity in South Africa requires targeted efforts to help smallholder farmers to access markets. The purpose of this study was to assess determinants of market participation and its contribution to ...
S. I. Hlatshwayo +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Productivity growth in smallholder agriculture is an important driver of rural economic development and poverty reduction. However, smallholder farmers often have limited access to information, which can be a serious constraint for increasing ...
Pallavi Rajkhowa, M. Qaim
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THE PERCEPTION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS TOWARD MICRO-INSURANCE AS A RISK COPING STRATEGY IN ZIMBABWE
AGRISE, 2023 Microinsurance is an important risk mitigation strategy in smallholder farmers’ agricultural enterprises that are faced with intensifying climate change and unpredictability.
Chrispen Maireva
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Sustainability, 2021 Smallholder farmers face several challenges that limit their access to markets and prevent them from taking advantage of market opportunities. This study sought to provide observed information on households’ involvement in the output market and to ...
S. I. Hlatshwayo +5 more
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