Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services

Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change. Natural disasters are a threat to food security not only ex post, by inducing farmers to sell their as-sets, keep children out of school or borrow at high...

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Autores principales: Cecchi, Francesco, Aredo, Samson Dejene, Kivuva, Benjamin, Omondi, Simon, Chegeh, Joseph, Tabalia, Amos, Kramer, Berber
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624
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author Cecchi, Francesco
Aredo, Samson Dejene
Kivuva, Benjamin
Omondi, Simon
Chegeh, Joseph
Tabalia, Amos
Kramer, Berber
author_browse Aredo, Samson Dejene
Cecchi, Francesco
Chegeh, Joseph
Kivuva, Benjamin
Kramer, Berber
Omondi, Simon
Tabalia, Amos
author_facet Cecchi, Francesco
Aredo, Samson Dejene
Kivuva, Benjamin
Omondi, Simon
Chegeh, Joseph
Tabalia, Amos
Kramer, Berber
author_sort Cecchi, Francesco
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change. Natural disasters are a threat to food security not only ex post, by inducing farmers to sell their as-sets, keep children out of school or borrow at high rates; they also threaten livelihoods ex ante, by discouraging farmers from investing in high-return practices and technologies (Elbers et al., 2007). Fortunately, significant progress has been made in the past two decades in developing and releasing seeds with genetic traits that are more tolerant to weather shocks, pests and disease. These im-provements in seed technology are offering prom-ising pathways to improve farmers’ adaptive ca-pacity, increasing investments and thereby agri-cultural productivity (Emerick et al., 2016).
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spelling CGSpace1456242025-11-06T07:40:45Z Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services Cecchi, Francesco Aredo, Samson Dejene Kivuva, Benjamin Omondi, Simon Chegeh, Joseph Tabalia, Amos Kramer, Berber insurance advisory services seeds technology smallholders information and communication technologies smart materials Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change. Natural disasters are a threat to food security not only ex post, by inducing farmers to sell their as-sets, keep children out of school or borrow at high rates; they also threaten livelihoods ex ante, by discouraging farmers from investing in high-return practices and technologies (Elbers et al., 2007). Fortunately, significant progress has been made in the past two decades in developing and releasing seeds with genetic traits that are more tolerant to weather shocks, pests and disease. These im-provements in seed technology are offering prom-ising pathways to improve farmers’ adaptive ca-pacity, increasing investments and thereby agri-cultural productivity (Emerick et al., 2016). 2019-12-30 2024-06-21T09:04:45Z 2024-06-21T09:04:45Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134491 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134938 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Cecchi, Francesco; Aredo, Samson Dejene; Kivuva, Benjamin; Omondi, Simon; Chegeh, Joseph; Tabalia, Amos; and Kramer, Berber. 2019. Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624
spellingShingle insurance
advisory services
seeds
technology
smallholders
information and communication technologies
smart materials
Cecchi, Francesco
Aredo, Samson Dejene
Kivuva, Benjamin
Omondi, Simon
Chegeh, Joseph
Tabalia, Amos
Kramer, Berber
Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title_full Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title_fullStr Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title_full_unstemmed Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title_short Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
title_sort promoting seed systems for stress tolerant varieties at scale potential for bundling with insurance advisory services
topic insurance
advisory services
seeds
technology
smallholders
information and communication technologies
smart materials
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624
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