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Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52).
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| author | Gwata, Feri |
| author2 | Visser, Martine |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52). |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10524 Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa Gwata, Feri Visser, Martine Economics Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52). This paper presents an empirical analysis of the contentious issue regarding risk preferences of small-scale farmers in low-income countries. Resource-poor farmers have often been described as being inherently risk averse given their tendency to under-invest in risky yet profitable crop technologies. In contrast to this dominant view we argue that it is unlikely that these farmers have an inherent disposition towards risk aversion. We hypothesize that the observed under-investment in crop technologies is largely due to the financial constraints which these farmers face. 2014-12-30T06:42:58Z 2014-12-30T06:42:58Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10524 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Gwata, Feri Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| title_full | Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| title_short | Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa |
| title_sort | measuring risk aversion among asset poor small scale farmers in the western cape south africa |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10524 |
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