The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture

By John Knight, S. Weir, T. Woldehanna. 2003

267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Asadullah
2. Sanzidur Rahman
3. Elaine M. Liu
4. Jikun Huang
5. A. de Brauw
6. P. Eozenou

In Safety Research

1. Sanzidur Rahman
2. A. Prakash
3. M. Asadullah
4. edited by
5. Elaine M. Liu

In Soil Science

1. A. Prakash
2. M. Asadullah
3. Sanzidur Rahman
4. edited by
5. Elaine M. Liu

Citations in the corpus

• Safeguarding food security in volatile global markets. (2011, background): “In an analysis of agricultural policies in 18 countries between 1960 and 1983, Krueger et al. (1991) show that the macroeconomic environment and the supply of public goods may influence performance in the agricultural sector.”
• Time to Change What to Sow: Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption Decisions of Cotton Farmers in China (2013, background): “Knight, Weir, and Woldehanna (2003) study technology adoption among Ethiopian farmers by dividing farmers into risk-averse and non-risk-averse groups depending on farmers’ answer to a hypothetical question.”
• The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (2007, unknown): “The data shown in Table 5 indicate that Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zambia have indeed experienced significantly higher temperatures and that Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Senegal and Zambia have experienced a significantly drier climate.”
• Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity (2013, unknown): “It is claimed that educated farmers adopt new technologies earlier because they tend to prefer riskier production technologies in general if these technologies provide higher expected returns (Knight et al. 2003; Asadullah and Rahman 2009). Hence, education is supposed to decrease th”
• Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: the role of education revisited (2009, background): “Three exceptions are Appleton and Balihuta (1996), Knight et al. (2003) and Weir and Knight (2007).”