The study of human behaviour has been cementing its place within economics for decades.
The complexity of decisions in family farming, challenging agricultural markets, and climate …

This paper explores the impact of ambiguity preference and social learning on farmers' new
technology adoption. The results show that (1) Ambiguity preference has a significant impact …

Agriculture is one of the sectors most exposed to a plethora of risky phenomena such as
weather, pests and diseases, changes in prices and government policies, instability of …

Risks, risk management techniques and the willingness to insure poultry farms by poultry
farmers in Ghana were explored. Random Parameter Logit (RPL) and Conditional Logit (CL) …

The development and uptake of agricultural insurance products by farmers in developing
countries has been universally and disappointingly low. This paper investigates farmers' …

Purpose This study investigates the effect of education on crop insurance knowledge within
the context of noncompliance experiences. In addition, the study delves into the role of …

Purpose This article analyzes farmers' preferences for different nonindexed crop insurance
alternatives, using discrete choice experiment data on cocoa farmers from southern Ghana …

Based on the microdata of 705 wheat farmers in the Loess Plateau, this study empirically
analyzes the impact of uncertainty on farmers' adoption of innovative seeds using a field …

Farmers' contract breach behavior is cited as one of the major stumbling blocks in the
sustainable expansion of contract farming in many developing countries. This paper …

Governments in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are keen to expand irrigation to
improve food security and are placing particular emphasis on adoption and use of …