Enabling Productive But Asset-Poor Jamaican Farmers to Succeed
10 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2006
Date Written: August 2005
Abstract
21st century thinking on this area of agricultural development speaks to enabling productive but asset-poor Jamaican farmers to succeed through market-based risk financing instruments(which would assist greatly in the 100% increase he is asking of Portland Farmers).
Market-based risk financing instruments could enable asset-poor but productive farmers exposed to production shocks to engage in riskier but higher return agricultural activities.
Keywords: Jamaican farmers, Agricultural Development Jamaica, Jamaica Agricultural Society(JAS), Jamaican farmers
JEL Classification: E61,N56
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Jones, Peter W., Enabling Productive But Asset-Poor Jamaican Farmers to Succeed (August 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=886046 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.886046
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