Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case
Uncertainty and risk are characteristics inherent in agricultural activities, and one of the main sources of risk is weather. Because agriculture depends heavily on rainfall, it is sensitive to weather changes. Agriculture is also vulnerable to extreme weather events; floods, droughts, and frosts ca...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2009
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| author | González, Amado Villarreal |
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| description | Uncertainty and risk are characteristics inherent in agricultural activities, and one of the main sources of risk is weather. Because agriculture depends heavily on rainfall, it is sensitive to weather changes. Agriculture is also vulnerable to extreme weather events; floods, droughts, and frosts cause both production and capital losses. Approximately 98 percent of the catastrophic risk to agriculture in Mexico stems from two types of weather events: droughts (accounting for 80 percent) and cyclones (accounting for 18 percent). Low-income rural populations are highly vulnerable to the harmful effects of weather, yet their access to insurance programs is almost nonexistent. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1618862025-11-06T04:46:55Z Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case González, Amado Villarreal risk capital drought insurance Uncertainty and risk are characteristics inherent in agricultural activities, and one of the main sources of risk is weather. Because agriculture depends heavily on rainfall, it is sensitive to weather changes. Agriculture is also vulnerable to extreme weather events; floods, droughts, and frosts cause both production and capital losses. Approximately 98 percent of the catastrophic risk to agriculture in Mexico stems from two types of weather events: droughts (accounting for 80 percent) and cyclones (accounting for 18 percent). Low-income rural populations are highly vulnerable to the harmful effects of weather, yet their access to insurance programs is almost nonexistent. 2009 2024-11-21T09:59:08Z 2024-11-21T09:59:08Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161886 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute González, Amado Villarreal. 2009. Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 17(15). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161886 |
| spellingShingle | risk capital drought insurance González, Amado Villarreal Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title | Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title_full | Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title_fullStr | Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title_short | Innovations in insuring the poor: Index insurance applied to agriculture: The Mexican case |
| title_sort | innovations in insuring the poor index insurance applied to agriculture the mexican case |
| topic | risk capital drought insurance |
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