Resultados de búsqueda - "Insurance

Digital agriculture platforms: Understanding innovations in rural finance and logistics in Uganda’s agrifood sector por Ajambo, Susan, Ogutu, Sylvester O., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi

“…The use of digital innovations has for instance enabled access to agri-insurance and digital loans or credit which was not possible before. …”
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Samband mellan negativa skördeavvikelser och nederbörd : underlag för utformning av en ny grödaförsäkring mot nederbörd? por Abrahamsson, Petra, Bendelin, Charlotte

Marknadsinriktad miljökommunikation på Internet por Thorn, Mikael

“…The aim of this study is to analyse how an insurance company more actively can communicate environmental matters foremost in their contact with customers. …”
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Design and development of IBLI for southern Ethiopia por Mude, Andrew G.

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Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research por Hidrobo, Melissa, Peterman, Amber, Kumar, Neha, Lambon-Quayefio, Monica, Roy, Shalini, Gilligan, Daniel O., Paz, Florencia

“…We provide an overview of the policy discourse and research on social protection and gender in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on social assistance, social care, and social insurance. Taking a ‘review of reviews’ approach, we aggregate findings from rigorous evaluations on women's health, economic, empowerment, and violence impacts. …”
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Social networks near and far: The role of bonding and bridging social capital for assets of the rural poor por Mogues, Tewodaj

“…These kinds of informal insurance schemes are presumed to be most effective in the face of idiosyncratic risk. …”
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CARE Ethiopia Pastoral Livelihoods Programs in Oromia Region por Hopkins, C.

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Farmers welfare in Ghana por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…A N Moomen, of the new Agricultural Insurance Scheme and Flight Lieutenant Joe B Atiemo, of the Ghana Cocoa Board, a Farmers' Welfare Fund is to be established in Ghana.…”
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How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized? Evidence from Ethiopia por Abay, Kibrom A., Koru, Bethlehem, Abate, Gashaw T., Berhane, Guush

“…With this broad question in mind, we characterize alternative formation of RFCs and their implications in improving rural households’ access to financial services, including savings, credit and insurance services. We find that some features of RFCs have varying implications for delivering various financial services (savings, credit and insurance). …”
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Hedging catches on por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…In the April 2002 issue of Spore (98), the article 'The dice have no dots' made a strong plea for producers to consider taking out insurance against calamities, as protection against low yields or rock-bottom prices for their commodities. …”
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Implementing IBLI in Northern Kenya and investigating feasibility in Southern Ethiopia por Mude, Andrew G.

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Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria por Janssens, Wendy, Kramer, Berber, Murphy, Mike

“…In the absence of formal financial products such as health insurance or health savings accounts, unexpected illness or injury can have severe consequences. …”
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Evidence from Ethiopia: Alternative formation of rural savings and credit cooperatives and their implications por Abay, Kibrom A., Koru, Bethlehem, Abate, Gashaw T., Berhane, Guush

“…With these broader questions in mind, we characterize alternative formation of RuSACCOs and their implications in improving rural households’ access to financial services, including savings, credit and insurance services. We find that some features of RuSACCOs have varying implications for delivering various financial services (savings, credit and insurance). …”
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Liquid milk: Cash constraints and day-to-day intertemporal choice in financial diaries por Geng, Xin, Janssens, Wendy, Kramer, Berber

“…Moreover, households cope with health shocks by selling more milk in the local market and less to the cooperative, but only in weeks when they are not covered by health insurance. Increased flexibility in payment and the provision of insurance through agricultural cooperatives can potentially reduce side selling and improve the performance of collective marketing arrangements.…”
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Burial societies in rural Ethiopia por Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John F., Krishnan, Pramila, Woldehanna, Tassew

“…In most empirical studies of risk smoothing—for example, that of Townsend (1994)—the insurance unit has been assumed to be the village. …”
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Onset risk and draft animal investment in Nigeria por Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…Onset risk, the uncertainty in the onset of rainy season, is an important element of weather risk for African farmers with little access to formal insurance who engage in traditional rainfed farming. …”
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Remote sensing applications for rice mapping and yield estimation in the Senegal River Valley (SRV) of Senegal por Mathieu, Renaud, Murugesan, Deiveegan, Quicho, Emma, Faye, Omar Ndaw, Sall, Moussa, Gatti, Luca, Holec, Francesco

“…This initiative aims to develop a digital rice monitoring platform in Senegal based on near-real-time satellite data to support national policies, food security, and market management, as well as to facilitate farmers’ resilience through the development of insurance and microfinance products. This report presents the preliminary results of mapping rice areas across the Senegal River Valley during dry and wet seasons of 2023 using the Remote sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies (RIICE) platform in collaboration with sarmap, Switzerland, the Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), and local partners.…”
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Traditional breeding objectives and practices of goat, sheep and cattle smallholders in The Gambia and implications in relation to the design of breeding interventions por Ejlertsen, M., Poole, Elizabeth J., Marshall, Karen

“…The most important objectives for keeping all species of livestock for the poorer groups (0 to 10 cattle) was 'savings and insurance', followed by 'income' and 'ceremonial/dowry' for the small ruminants and 'manure' and 'draught' for both cows and bulls. …”
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Social exclusion and labour market outcomes: evidence from eastern Europe and central Asia por Bangwayo-Skeete, P.F., Zikhali, Precious

“…Purpose - The paper seeks to examine the impact of social exclusion on individuals' propensity to be employed and how, if employed, social exclusion affects individuals' perceived job insecurity and the likelihood of being covered by social insurance in their jobs. Design/methodology/approach - Using the United Nations Development Program/United Nations Children Fund 2009 survey data from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the paper employs comprehensive econometric methods that overcome challenges posed by endogeneity of social exclusion in labour market outcomes, self-selection into employment, and the interdependency between perceptions of job security and social insurance coverage. …”
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Mapping the impacts of food aid: Current knowledge and future directions por Margolies, Amy, Hoddinott, John F.

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