This paper examines the role of individual risk attitudes in the decision to adopt a new form
of agricultural biotechnology in China. I conducted a survey and a field experiment to elicit …

We compare two different elicitation methods for measuring risk attitudes on a sample of
French farmers. We consider the lottery tasks initially proposed by Holt and Laury (Econ Rev …

Experimental economic techniques have been widely used to evaluate human risk attitudes,
but how these measured attitudes relate to overall individual wealth levels is unclear …

We obtain rich measures of the risk preferences of a sample of Vietnamese farmers, and
revisit the link between risk preferences and economic well-being. Far from being …

Government-guided withdrawal from rural homesteads is a sustainable solution to the
problem of vacant rural residential land. Nonetheless, few studies have considered the …

By setting out rules for how food should be produced and processed to meet market
requirements, agricultural standards can connect farmers to lucrative markets. Yet their …

Improving local farmers′ climate change adaptive capacity is an important policy issue in
rural China. This study investigates farmers′ risk cognition, risk preferences and climate …

Avoiding risk in financial decisions is credited to be a key contributor to persistent poverty
and poverty traps. In spite of this, the methods used to measure behaviour under risk rarely …

In this paper we propose a new measure of exposure to downside risk. Its reference point is
the current standard of living of a household as opposed to other benchmarks such as the …

The stability of contract farming is challenged by the impact of disastrous weather on crop
yield. Managing weather risks has become an unavoidable reality for participants in contract …