Poor rural and urban households in develo** countries face substantial risks, which they
handle with risk‐management and risk‐co** strategies, including self‐insurance through …

A growing literature suggests that in low-income countries, households with few assets can
be trapped in chronic poverty. This article reviews relevant threads of the poverty traps …

Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists,
particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the …

This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using microdata
from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce agricultural productivity …

Agriculture and the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are highly sensitive to climatic
variability. Drought, in particular, represents one of the most important natural factors …

Resilience has become prominent in academia where it is used as a central framework in
disciplines such as ecology, climate change adaptation or urban planning. Policy makers …

Indian agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate shocks, such as floods, droughts and heat-
stress. In this paper, using a dynamic panel-data approach we have assessed the impact of …

We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to
conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior …

With the develo** world increasingly exposed to severe shocks and stresses, a growing
number of international development agencies have now adopted resilience building as a …

Much has been written on the determinants of technology adoption in agriculture, with
issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability …