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Risk Perception and Management Strategies Among Ecuadorian Cocoa Farmers: A Comprehensive Analysis of Attitudes and Decisions

Agriculture 2025, 15(8), 843; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15080843
by José Díaz-Montenegro 1,*, Raúl Minchala-Santander 1 and Marco Faytong-Haro 2,3
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Agriculture 2025, 15(8), 843; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15080843
Submission received: 23 October 2024 / Revised: 14 November 2024 / Accepted: 18 November 2024 / Published: 14 April 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

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Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The paper is coherent and provides results for Ecuador. I suggest minor changes.

Regarding the methods, I suggest explaining more about how the data collection and sampling were done. In addition, due to ethical concerns, it is critical that the authors mention whether they gathered consent from people interviewed and what research institute approved the IRB (Institutional Review Board). 

I also recommend to the authors to include a table with the descriptive statistics of the dependent and independent variables, and if the researchers use control variables (e.g., farmers' socio-demographic characteristics).

It seems that Table 1 repeats variables as different indicators. For example, "disrespect for the contract by companies" is under the indicators COMPP and PRIPP. This also happen with other variables. Could you clarify this?

I recommend clarifying what it means in Figure 1 "ra1" and "ra2."

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