On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia

By Salvatore Di Falco, Jean-Paul Chavas. 2009

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: An integrated assessment (2016, unknown): “This has been found not only in low-intensity, biologically diverse farming systems such as Ethiopia (Di Falco and Chavas, 2009; Di Falco et al., 2010) and Pakistan (Smale et al., 1998), but also in high-intensity, low-biodiversity farming systems such as the East of England (Omer et al., 2007).”
Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi (2012, background): “Cultivating several crop species can help smallholders to manage price and production risk (Baumgärtner & Quaas, 2008; Di Falco & Chavas, 2009), and in moisture-stressed, ecologically-fragile agricultural systems, crop diversification also can be a viable strategy to increase farm-level…”
To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia (2017, unknown): “Recent examples of diversity measures in the literature include diversity of income (Barrett, Reardon, & Webb, 2001), diversity of genetic stock (Di Falco & Chavas, 2009), and diversity from cultivation of both staple crops and HVCs (Birthal et al. , 2015).”
Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (2014, methodology): “Reducing downside risk means decreasing the asymmetry (or skewness) of the risk distribution toward high outcome, holding both means and variance constant12 (Menezes et al. 1980; Di Falco and Chavas 2009).”
Managing Increasing Environmental Risks Through Agro-Biodiversity and Agri-Environmental Policies (2010, unknown): “Speciﬁcally, we assume the following expected utility function, where ρ > 0 is a parameter describing the farmer’s degree of risk aversion (Arrow 1965, Pratt 1964):”
Modern variety adoption and risk management in drought prone areas: insights from the sorghum farmers of eastern Ethiopia (2010, methodology): “A number of studies, including McGuire (2005) and more recently Di Falco et al. (2007) and Di Falco and Chavas (2009), found that diversity within crops managed on Ethiopian farms is an important way of reducing downside production risk.”
Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India (2015, background): “For example Di Falco and Chavas (2009) delve into the issue of wheat genetic diversity and show that greater variety richness i.e., diversification on multiple plots improves farmer’s welfare.”
Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services for sustained on-farm utilization of plant and animal genetic resources (2011, background): “…good characte istics are not only limited to direct use values associated with production outputs but also include the private benefits associated with using agrobiodiversity to minimise risks relatd to external shocks, such as climatic events and pest and diseases (e.g. Di Falco and Chavas, 2009).”