GPS, Inc.: A Case of Investment under Uncertainty
Darren Hudson, Lisa House, Barry Barnett, Murat Isik
Johnny Williams, president of Global Positioning Solutions, Inc., is considering entering the market for providing remotely sensed imagery and associated prescriptions to farmers. A large initial...
Skees, Jerry, Barnett, Barry, Hartell, Jason
Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed countries, markets for transferring the risk of crop losses caused by natural...
Perception of Decoupled Government Payments: Evidence from a National Survey
Ahmadov, Fariz, Mishra, Ashok, Barnett, Barry
Based on results from a national survey, this study examines how farm households say that they used (or would use) government transfers distributed in the form of direct fixed payments. In addition,...
Melgar, Salvador, House, Lisa, Barnett, Barry
This case study focuses on a coffee farmer in Guatemala who, given current low coffee prices, is worried about his ability to maintain the family tradition of coffee production. He wonders whether...
Brooks, Christopher P., Holmes, Christopher, Kramer, Karen, Barnett, Barry, Keitt, Timothy H.
The highland forests of Madagascar are home to some of the world's most unique and diverse flora and fauna and to some of its poorest people. This juxtaposition of poverty and biodiversity is...
Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries
Benjamin Collier, Jerry Skees, Barry Barnett
Weather index insurance underwrites a weather risk, typically highly correlated with agricultural production losses, as a proxy for economic loss and is gaining popularity in lower income countries....