Purpose: In this article we illustrate the importance of understanding the risk profiles of new technologies, in addition to the changes in productivity, to be able to determine strategies for agricultural development. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is based on data obtained from a 2002 survey of subsistence farmers in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, and a Just and Pope (1978) fr...

There is an increasing realisation that one of the keys to the sustainability of the multi-billion dollar nanotechnology is its ability to transfer risk. The question of the insurability of the various stages of the life cycles of products that contain nano materials is attracting the attention of policy makers and industry stakeholders alike. Research conducted by KBS academics in conjunction ...

Despite all preventive measures, there is so much possibility of risks in any project development as well as in enterprise management. There is no any standard mechanism or methodology available to assess the risks in any project or production management. Using some precautionary steps, the manager can only avoid the risks as much as he can. To address this issue, this paper presents a probabil...

in this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in north khorassan province for the two periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance model. to evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix were used. results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. during study period, a decreas...

Salmonella and Campylobacter are generally regarded as the most important foodborne pathogens in the world. Reduction or elimination of these pathogens in the first part of the food chain (on-farm) is important to prevent disease among consumers of animal products. Rodents are frequently associated with infrastructural damages and eating or spoiling of stored feed and products, but the veterina...

the purpose of this research is investigation of application of the arbitrage pricing theory and effect of unanticipated changes in a set of macroeconomic variables such as inflation rate, money supply, exchange rate, oil price, term structure and industrial production on expected security return in tehran stock exchange. in this research, data are analyzed quarterly for the period of 1997-2008...

This research was conducted at Food Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Medan City. In this study, observations were made on all activities, so that the process stages risks affect halal each stage of are known. Furthermore, risk factors identified, House Risk (HOR) method is used to find dominant cause through calculation Aggregate Potential (ARP). The results showed there 9 process...