Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and how livestock production responds to access to markets and varying weather […]
Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 138, by Kibrom A. Abay, Nathaniel D. Jensen. Abstract: Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and […]
New ESSP Publication: ‘Insuring against the Weather’
ESSP Research Note 20 "Insuring against the Weather" by Guush Berhane, Daniel Clarke, Stefan Dercon, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse. Weather risk remains a major challenge to farming in poor countries that face frequent droughts. Recent evidence on index-based weather insurance points to low take-up rates largely due to basis risk (i.e. residual […]