The Role of Risk Mitigation in Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Potato Cultivation in the Bolivian Andes

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dc.contributor.authorLarochelle, Catherineen
dc.contributor.authorAlwang, Jeffrey R.en
dc.contributor.departmentAgricultural and Applied Economicsen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.countryBoliviaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-14T15:48:16Zen
dc.date.available2018-12-14T15:48:16Zen
dc.date.issued2013-06-01en
dc.date.updated2018-12-14T15:48:15Zen
dc.description.abstractUsing a stochastic production frontier to model potato production in Bolivia, we quantify the costs of environmental and activity diversification in the form of efficiency losses and yield forgone. We find that efficiency decreases with the number of fields in a geographic cluster, distance between the dwelling and a particular field, discontinuity between fields, and off-farm income. However, environmental diversification is more detrimental than activity diversification. Using spatial analysis of field and household efficiency measures we assess production vulnerability to climatic shocks and the potential of environmental diversification in mitigating shocks. We find important spatial clusters of low and high efficiency at the field-level suggesting that climatic shocks influence efficiency measures. Household-level efficiency measures exhibit random spatial patterns suggesting that on average households can mitigate the adverse effects of shocks through environmental diversification.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 363-381en
dc.format.extent19 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier6112en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.2012.00367.xen
dc.identifier.issn1477-9552en
dc.identifier.issue2en
dc.identifier.orcidLarochelle, Catherine [0000-0001-7655-7380]en
dc.identifier.orcidAlwang, Jeffrey [0000-0002-2950-8516]en
dc.identifier.other145BSen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/86397en
dc.identifier.volume64en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwellen
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dc.subjectScience & Technologyen
dc.subjectSocial Sciencesen
dc.subjectLife Sciences & Biomedicineen
dc.subjectAgricultural Economics & Policyen
dc.subjectEconomicsen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectBusiness & Economicsen
dc.subjectBoliviaen
dc.subjectpotato productionen
dc.subjectrisk mitigationen
dc.subjectstochastic production functionen
dc.subjecttechnical efficiencyen
dc.subjectD13en
dc.subjectQ12en
dc.subject012en
dc.subjectDOUGLAS PRODUCTION-FUNCTIONSen
dc.subjectTECHNICAL EFFICIENCYen
dc.subjectVARIABLESen
dc.subjectFARMERSen
dc.subjectMODELSen
dc.subjectInternational activityen
dc.subject1402 Applied Economicsen
dc.titleThe Role of Risk Mitigation in Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Potato Cultivation in the Bolivian Andesen
dc.title.serialJournal of Agricultural Economicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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