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Viability Of Weather Based Index Insurance Among Smallholder Crop Farmers In Nigeria
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Book Synopsis Viability of Weather-based Index Insurance Among Smallholder Crop Farmers in Nigeria by : Chioma Doris Dimoha
Download or read book Viability of Weather-based Index Insurance Among Smallholder Crop Farmers in Nigeria written by Chioma Doris Dimoha and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weather Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa by : Ephias Makaudze
Download or read book Weather Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa written by Ephias Makaudze and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿThe international conference on ?Weather index insurance in Africa: lessons learnt and goals for the future? was organised by the Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape, in collaboration with its international partners. The conference attracted over 40 participants drawn from academic and research institutions, insurance practitioners, reinsurers, government policy makers, bankers, agricultural producers, and representatives of non-governmental organisations. The presenters highlighted experiences, challenges and opportunities based on current pilot projects on weather index insurance in many parts of Africa.
Book Synopsis Overcoming challenges to deliver agricultural weather-index insurance by : Erena, Getaneh
Download or read book Overcoming challenges to deliver agricultural weather-index insurance written by Erena, Getaneh and published by CTA. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief identifies and addresses key issues facing weather-index-based agricultural insurance. Drawing on diverse experiences from Africa and Central America, it zooms in on key challenges such as affordability, quality of weather data and models, raising awareness and trust in the benefits of insurance products and policy and regulatory frameworks. To have real impact, scale is the first requirement. Scaling strategies require reliable products, access to the rural areas, increased awareness about insurance and cost-effective delivery channels.
Book Synopsis Weather Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa by : Ephias Makaudze
Download or read book Weather Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa written by Ephias Makaudze and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economics of Weather Index-based Insurance: Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Preferences and the Impact of Insurance on Productivity in Kenya by : Kenneth Waluse Sibiko
Download or read book Economics of Weather Index-based Insurance: Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Preferences and the Impact of Insurance on Productivity in Kenya written by Kenneth Waluse Sibiko and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climatic risks are a major challenge for rural communities, especially those whose livelihoods directly depend on agriculture. Weather extremes affect crop productivity not only through the direct relationship between weather variables and yields, but also through the negative effects of such shocks on farmers' investment behavior. In particular, smallholder farmers are vulnerable partly because they are predominantly located in the tropics where exposure to climate variability is high, but also because they lack the resources and the capacity to properly cope with risks. Agricultural insur...
Book Synopsis Government Support to Agricultural Insurance by : Olivier Mahul
Download or read book Government Support to Agricultural Insurance written by Olivier Mahul and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments in developing countries have been increasingly involved in the support of agricultural (crop and livestock) insurance programs in recent years. In their attempts to design and implement agricultural insurance, they have sought technical and financial assistance from the international community and particularly from the World Bank. One of the recurrent requests from governments regards international experience with agricultural insurance, not only in developed countries, where in some cases agricultural insurance has been offered for more than a century, but also in middleand low-income countries. Governments are particularly interested in the technical, operational, financial, and institutional aspects of public support to agricultural insurance. 'Government Support to Agricultural Insurance' informs public and private decision makers involved in agricultural insurance about recent developments, with a particular focus on middle- and low-income countries. It presents an updated picture of the spectrum of institutional frameworks and experiences with agricultural insurance, ranging from countries in which the public sector provides no support to those in which governments heavily subsidize agricultural insurance. This analysis is based on a survey conducted by the World Bank s agricultural insurance team in 2008 in 65 developed and developing countries. Drawing on the survey results, the book identifies some key roles governments can play to support the development of sustainable, affordable, and cost-effective agricultural insurance programs.
Book Synopsis Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics by : Maurizio Tiepolo
Download or read book Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics written by Maurizio Tiepolo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through the application of modern technologies for characterizing local climate and tracking vulnerability and risk, and using decision-making tools. Drawing on 16 case studies conducted mainly in the Caribbean, Central America, Western and Eastern Africa, and South East Asia it is shown how successful integration of traditional and modern knowledge can enhance disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in the tropics. The case studies encompass both rural and urban settings and cover different scales: rural communities, cities, and regions. In addition, the book looks to the future of planning by addressing topics of major importance, including residual risk integration in local development plans, damage insurance and the potential role of climate vulnerability reduction credits. In many regions of the tropics, climate planning is growing but has still very low quality. This book identifies the weaknesses and proposes effective solutions.
Book Synopsis Bundling Weather Index Insurance with Microfinance by : Dorcas Stella Shumba
Download or read book Bundling Weather Index Insurance with Microfinance written by Dorcas Stella Shumba and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is exposed to climatic variations and weather-related shocks which affect agricultural output beyond the manageable limits of smallholder farmers. To manage food production uncertainties, weather index insurance (WII) pilot projects have been launched across SSA since the early 2000s. Due to low adoption rates among smallholder farmers, insurance providers have partnered with risk aggregators such as microfinance institutions to foster the demand for and uptake of WII. Despite this, demand for WWI remains low. This chapter seeks to explore the gap between the assertion, that WII is a promising risk transfer mechanism for smallholder farmers in SSA and the realisation that, even where microfinance is made available, subscription rates among smallholder farmers rarely rise. The practice of linking insurance with credit is considered to be important because, in principle, when smallholder farmers have access to insurance, they pose less risk to creditors. In this sense, insurance can crowd-in credit, the lack of which has long been identified as a major, if not the main, constraint for smallholders in developing countries.
Book Synopsis Weather risks and insurance opportunities for the rural poor by : Ceballos, Francisco
Download or read book Weather risks and insurance opportunities for the rural poor written by Ceballos, Francisco and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As climate variability gains prominence in the international policy agenda, public and private sectors alike are increasingly considering strategies to cope with its economic and social consequences. In turn, the general publicfaced with a growing number of extreme weather events and natural hazardsis beginning to demand concrete action. One sector where climate variability and its associated risk have the most damaging impact is the rural economy, in particular smallholder farmers. This brief outlines some of the adverse effects that climate variability has on the rural economy and describes how different insurance mechanisms can contribute to reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to weather risks.
Book Synopsis CGIAR research on agricultural insurance: Past achievements and future research priorities by : Kramer, Berber
Download or read book CGIAR research on agricultural insurance: Past achievements and future research priorities written by Kramer, Berber and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KEY MESSAGES • A recent external review of IFPRI’s research on agricultural insurance found that, since 2009, IFPRI has made important contributions to the literature on factors constraining farmers’ demand for agricultural insurance and on gender inclusiveness of insurance and, since 2015, has focused more specifically on developing new forms of insurance that can reduce basis risk at the farm level and make insurance more attractive to farmers. • IFPRI’s work on flexible insurance contracts, picture-based insurance, and bundling agricultural insurance with credit, seeds, and other agricultural services shows that well-designed insurance can significantly improve on standard index products, increase demand among smallholders, and lead to greater use of bundled inputs like improved seeds and climate-smart farming practices. • ILRI’s long-term success with its index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product illustrates that an action-oriented approach aimed at working with strong implementing partners on the ground ensures that, when a product is successful, it has the potential to scale up quickly, leading to significant development impacts. • Important knowledge gaps that warrant further CGIAR research include: 1) segmenting product design and marketing strategies for different target groups, such as sustainable commercial insurance and inclusive insurance; 2) the value and optimal design of programs and policies to remove tail-end catastrophic risks, and of insurance more broadly within a more holistic risk management framework; and 3) cost-benefit analyses around the net social benefits of insurance subsidies, and how these subsidies can best be designed and targeted to achieve their purposes.
Book Synopsis Weather insurance – a viable option in support of the development of Pacific local food crops and fisheries value chains by : Cole, S.
Download or read book Weather insurance – a viable option in support of the development of Pacific local food crops and fisheries value chains written by Cole, S. and published by CTA. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have suffered billions of dollars in damage and loss due to catastrophic weather events (e.g. cyclones, floods, drought) and other natural disasters (e.g. volcanic eruptions). The predominantly small size and diverse nature of the production systems make agricultural insurance investments unattractive. Biological assets – crops and livestock – typically fall outside mainstream insurance coverage, particularly for small farmers. Opportunities exist for transferring weather-related risks to insurance products that can benefit producers; but these need to be carefully evaluated in the Pacific context.
Book Synopsis Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers' Weather Index Insurance Products by : Francisco Ceballos
Download or read book Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers' Weather Index Insurance Products written by Francisco Ceballos and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cumulative dissertation discusses a range of topics related to the demand for and considerations around product design of weather index insurance instruments aimed at smallholder farmers' risk management. The second chapter, "Demand for a Simple Weather Insurance Product in India: Theory and Evidence," uses survey and administrative data from a project conducted in Madhya Pradesh, India during the 2010-2012 period. As part of this project, a new index insurance product was introduced to protect smallholder farmers of rainfed soybean from both deficit and excess rainfall during two cons...
Book Synopsis Assessing the Viability of Index Insurance as an Adaptation Tool in a Changing Climate Context by : Asher Siebert
Download or read book Assessing the Viability of Index Insurance as an Adaptation Tool in a Changing Climate Context written by Asher Siebert and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contributes to the literatures on climate extremes, climate change, and financial adaptation. In a developing world context, weather based index insurance is emerging as a potential financial adaptation for poor populations that have historically been excluded from financial markets. Index insurance has potential drawbacks as well as benefits and there are a number of practical implementation challenges. However, as index insurance is sensitive to threshold crossing extreme event (TCE) frequency and as climate change renders the climate system non-stationary, there is a need to assess how the frequency of extreme events may change as the climate system evolves. In an effort to address this research question for both hydroclimatological extremes (floods and droughts) and their associated risks, this dissertation explores the potential long-term viability of drought index insurance contracts for subsistence millet farmers and flood index insurance contracts for irrigated rice farmers in the West African Sahel nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Potential hypothetical contracts were chosen on the basis of correlation analysis and Gerrity skill analysis between multiple potential geophysical indices and national crop production data. Monte Carlo statistical methods are used extensively to simulate future streamflow and precipitation scenarios and are integrated with global climate model projections of precipitation. TCE frequency is found to be particularly sensitive to multi-decadal variability (MDV) and to changes in the mean (and less sensitive to changes in the variability). Moderate changes in the mean can have a more than two fold impact on the TCE frequency and multi-decadal variability typical of the region is shown to have a significant effect on the likelihood of a large number of TCEs in a specified time window. These changes to TCE frequency have important implications for both the actuarial and uncertainty related costs of index insurance over time; thereby creating challenges for long term index insurance viability. While specific results are simulation dependent, the more extreme scenarios indicate that there may be important limitations to the viability of index insurance in the future.
Book Synopsis Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers' Weather Index Insurance Products by : Francisco Ceballos
Download or read book Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers' Weather Index Insurance Products written by Francisco Ceballos and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cumulative dissertation discusses a range of topics related to the demand for and considerations around product design of weather index insurance instruments aimed at smallholder farmers' risk management. The second chapter, "Demand for a Simple Weather Insurance Product in India: Theory and Evidence," uses survey and administrative data from a project conducted in Madhya Pradesh, India during the 2010-2012 period. As part of this project, a new index insurance product was introduced to protect smallholder farmers of rainfed soybean from both deficit and excess rainfall during two cons...
Book Synopsis The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance by : P. B. R. Hazell
Download or read book The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance written by P. B. R. Hazell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Producer Insurance and Risk Management Options for Smallholder Farmers by : Vincent H. Smith
Download or read book Producer Insurance and Risk Management Options for Smallholder Farmers written by Vincent H. Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many smallholder families are exceptionally prone to potentially catastrophic decreases in their incomes and access to food. Over the past decade, therefore, policy makers and economists have increasingly focused on potential mechanisms for expanding risk management strategies available to those families. Commercially provided weather-based index insurance products, perhaps partially funded by subsidies, have been of particular interest because of their apparent potential to provide payments to smallholder families when they are most in need of help. However, the empirical evidence from a wide range of studies indicates that, absent relatively substantial subsidies, small holder farmers will not purchase commercially priced index products or even "all risk” products where payments are tied to the farm's crop losses. There are three important reasons why this is the case. First, smallholder farmers already have many ways of managing their risks, including informal community-based initiatives, on-farm production decisions and off-farm work. Second, index insurance schemes are subject to considerable basis risk; families often do not receive an index insurance indemnity when they experience a substantial crop loss on their farms. Third, the fixed costs of delivering crop insurance to smallholders make such coverage expensive. The potential market for weather index insurance therefore may be limited to insuring relatively large groups of farmers, either directly or indirectly though providing micro finance and other lending institution with coverage against widespread loan defaults associated with catastrophic events like major droughts. Alternatively, weather indexes could simply be used to more accurately target emergency aid.
Book Synopsis Index Insurance, Probabilistic Climate Forecasts, and Production by : Miguel Carriquiry
Download or read book Index Insurance, Probabilistic Climate Forecasts, and Production written by Miguel Carriquiry and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index insurance and probabilistic seasonal forecasts are becoming available in developing countries to help farmers manage climate risks in production. Although these tools are intimately related, work has not been done to formalize the connections between them. We investigate the relationship between the risk management tools through a model of input choice under uncertainty, forecasts, and insurance. While it is possible for forecasts to undermine insurance, we find that when contracts are appropriately designed, there are important synergies between forecasts, insurance, and effective input use. Used together, these tools overcome barriers preventing the use of imperfect information in production decision making.
