Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya
Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems. It is associated not only with rising average temperatures but also with less predictable weather and changes in humidity, with severe consequences for agricultural production, input markets, aggregation, processing, distribution, and cons...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138995 |
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| author | Kramer, Berber |
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| description | Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems. It is associated not only with rising average temperatures but also with less predictable weather and changes in humidity, with severe consequences for agricultural production, input markets, aggregation, processing, distribution, and consumption. Negative impacts on food production can raise consumer prices, potentially leading to social unrest and conflict; increased temperatures and changes in humidity require stronger cold chains and improved storage facilities to avoid postharvest damage (de Brauw and Pacillo 2022). This chapter highlights several innovations in climate insurance that were developed and tested in Kenya with the aim of improving smallholder farmers’ ability to manage the production risks associated with climate change. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1389952025-11-06T04:11:06Z Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya Kramer, Berber climate change food systems agricultural production foods insurance risk Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems. It is associated not only with rising average temperatures but also with less predictable weather and changes in humidity, with severe consequences for agricultural production, input markets, aggregation, processing, distribution, and consumption. Negative impacts on food production can raise consumer prices, potentially leading to social unrest and conflict; increased temperatures and changes in humidity require stronger cold chains and improved storage facilities to avoid postharvest damage (de Brauw and Pacillo 2022). This chapter highlights several innovations in climate insurance that were developed and tested in Kenya with the aim of improving smallholder farmers’ ability to manage the production risks associated with climate change. 2023-12-20 2024-02-06T21:06:55Z 2024-02-06T21:06:55Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138995 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kramer, Berber. 2023. Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya. In Food systems transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the past and policy options for the future, eds. Clemens Breisinger, Michael Keenan, Juneweenex Mbuthia, and Jemimah Njuki. Part 4: Toward more resilient food systems, Chapter 11, Pp. 285-304. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561_11. |
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| title | Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya |
| title_full | Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya |
| title_short | Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in Kenya |
| title_sort | climate insurance opportunities for improving agricultural risk management in kenya |
| topic | climate change food systems agricultural production foods insurance risk |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138995 |
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