The current study presents an investigation on the waste management in the cattle slaughterhouse by the following objectives: a) to identify the existing waste management practices in relation to sources, quantity and characteristic of wastes; b) to identify the situation of production, collection, storage, transportation, processing and recycling, and final disposal of wastes and the problems ...

Lack of access to formal insurance market may prevent farmers from pursuing risky production activities with potentially large returns. How does access to formal microinsurance affect production and economic development? We report results from a large randomized field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of a subsidized insurance for sows. We induce exogenous variation in i...

The purpose of this study was designing predictive model for innovation management in processing and complementary industries of livestock products. The method of research was correlative descriptive. The population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of livestock products of Khouzestan Province (N=486). By stratified random sampling, a random sample (n=125)...

the purpose of this study was designing predictive model for innovation management in processing and complementary industries of livestock products. the method of research was correlative descriptive. the population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of livestock products of khouzestan province (n=486). by stratified random sampling, a random sample (n=125)...

Livestock makes an important contribution to the livelihood of Sahelian farmers and herders and is a source of self-insurance against income shocks. By allocating livestock efficiently over space, spatial market integration should foster a sustainable use of pasture resources. It is also expected to favor the sharing of risk across regions by smoothing idiosyncratic price variations. Using mont...

Ample evidence exists to suggest that nonlinear asset dynamics can give rise to an environ­ ment of poverty traps. When dynamic asset thresholds matter, asset insurance offers great promise for managing risks that vulnerable households face. In this paper, we use dynamic programming techniques to generate an option value measure of welfare gains attributable to asset insurance in this context. ...