Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk

Farm households face many market and production risks to their livelihoods, food security, and economic well-being. Agricultural insurance is intended to help protect households from risk, but many agricultural risks are difficult to insure against and demand for insurance products remains low. This...

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Autores principales: Ceballos, Francisco, Hazell, Peter B. R., Hill, Ruth Vargas, Kramer, Berber
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174303
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author Ceballos, Francisco
Hazell, Peter B. R.
Hill, Ruth Vargas
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description Farm households face many market and production risks to their livelihoods, food security, and economic well-being. Agricultural insurance is intended to help protect households from risk, but many agricultural risks are difficult to insure against and demand for insurance products remains low. This chapter examines how policy-oriented research has encouraged public investment, facilitated farmer use, and improved farmer welfare, and explores how new technologies and approaches are creating opportunities for increasing coverage. Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108
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spelling CGSpace1743032025-11-06T03:42:21Z Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk Ceballos, Francisco Hazell, Peter B. R. Hill, Ruth Vargas Kramer, Berber insurance agricultural insurance risk reduction farmers economic policies crop insurance weather index insurance artificial intelligence machine learning Farm households face many market and production risks to their livelihoods, food security, and economic well-being. Agricultural insurance is intended to help protect households from risk, but many agricultural risks are difficult to insure against and demand for insurance products remains low. This chapter examines how policy-oriented research has encouraged public investment, facilitated farmer use, and improved farmer welfare, and explores how new technologies and approaches are creating opportunities for increasing coverage. Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 2025-05-28 2025-04-23T19:52:38Z 2025-04-23T19:52:38Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174303 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134903 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134751 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-111220-014147 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ceballos, Francisco; Hazell, Peter B. R.; Hill, Ruth Vargas; and Kramer, Berber. 2025. Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk. In Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world, eds. Johan Swinnen and Christopher Barrett. Part Three: Supporting Farmers, Chapter 10, Pp. 245-264. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174303
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agricultural insurance
risk reduction
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economic policies
crop insurance
weather index insurance
artificial intelligence
machine learning
Ceballos, Francisco
Hazell, Peter B. R.
Hill, Ruth Vargas
Kramer, Berber
Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title_full Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title_fullStr Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title_short Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
title_sort agricultural insurance policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
topic insurance
agricultural insurance
risk reduction
farmers
economic policies
crop insurance
weather index insurance
artificial intelligence
machine learning
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