Better technology, better plots, or better farmers? Identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farmers

T.J. Wyatt, two anonymous referees and seminar participants at Cornell University and the 2003 AAEA annual meetings for helpful discussions and comments on preliminary results. This research was supported by USAID under the Programme Ilo cooperative agreement from the Madagascar mission, number 687-00-00-00093-00, the BASIS CRSP, through grant LAG-A-00-96-90016-00, and the SAGA cooperative agreement, number HFM-A-00-01-00132-00. Any remaining errors are solely our responsibility