Resultados de búsqueda - "Insurance

Brandsäkerhet i lantbruksbyggnader : tankar och reflektioner hos drabbade lantbrukare por Karlsson, Johan, Reijmar, Henrik

Internal organization and performances of saving and loan associations: Evidence from rural Tanzania por Pamuk, Haki, Asseldonk, Marcel van, Tumainiely, Kuweka, Ruben, Ruerd, Wattel, Cor

“…They do not have access to savings accounts, insurance products, and agricultural credit facilities, limiting those farmers’ investment in agriculture. …”
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Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia por Abay, Kibrom A., Jensen, Nathaniel D.

“…We also find that households exposed to more unpredictable weather are less likely to engage in livestock production for markets, rather they are more likely to engage in livestock production for precautionary savings and insurance. Furthermore, greater rainfall uncertainty influences livestock portfolio allocation toward those which can be easily liquidated while also discouraging investment in modern livestock inputs. …”
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Seasonal Forecast Information Synthesis and Dissemination in Association with CRAFT Tanzania and AICCRA - ESA por Keizer, Menno, Kabuka, Godfrey, Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…The workshop drew several public and private professional (e.g., experts from TMS, NARES, MoA, insurance, finance, and private sector value chain actors) in climate, climate change, and weather forecasts from various national and international (e.g., SNV, Agriterra and Rabo Bank etc.) organizations. 37 participants took part – of which 17 were women and 7 were youths. …”
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Genotype by environment interaction and grain yield stability of drought tolerant cowpea landraces in Ethiopia por Mekonnen, T.W., Mekbib, Firew, Amsalu, B., Gedil, Melaku A, Labuschagne, Maryke T.

“…The crop is used as a source of food, and insurance crop during the dry season. Cowpea is adaptable to a wide range of climatic conditions. …”
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Conservation priorities for Ethiopian sheep breeds combining threat status, breed merits and contributions to genetic diversity por Gizaw, Solomon, Komen, Hans, Windig, J.J., Hanotte, Olivier H., Arendonk, Johan A.M. van

“…Our results balance the trade-offs between conserving breeds as insurance against future uncertainties and current sustainable utilization. …”
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Learning for Adoption: Technology Adoption in Developing Country Agriculture por Janvry, A. de, Macours, K., Sadoulet, E.

“…Many factors can be associated with lack of adoption, such as credit constraints, lack of insurance coverage, high transaction costs on markets,or behavioral inadequacies. …”
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Morocco: ClimBeR Inception Workshop Report por Rose, Sabrina, Valencia, Lina, Hodur, Janet, Govind, Ajit

“…Following the achievements of the Green Morocco Plan, Morocco’s Green Generation Strategy 2020-2030 aims to improve water use efficiency, strengthen agricultural insurance programs, and increase access to climate finance. …”
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Value of biodiversity on Patagonian rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index por Duarte Guardia, Sandra, Peri, Pablo Luis, Martínez Pastur, Guillermo, Lasagno, Romina, Lencinas, Maria Vanessa, Thomas, Evert, Ladd, Brenton

“…The results are consistent with theory and suggest that plant diversity has instrumental and monetary value as well as insurance value that may increase the resistance of rangeland ecosystems to global change drivers.…”
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Risk aversion, impatience, and adoption of conservation agriculture practices among smallholders in Zambia por Simutowe, Esau, Ngoma, Hambulo, Manyanga, Mark, Silva, ‪João Vasco, Baudron, Frédéric, Nyagumbo, Isaiah, Kalala, Kelvin, Habeenzu, Mukwemba, Thierfelder, Christian

“…These findings imply a need to embed risk management (e.g., through crop yield insurance) in the scaling of sustainable agricultural practices to incentivise adoption. …”
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Agricultural transformation in Nepal: Trends, prospects, and policy options por Thapa, Ganesh, Kumar, Anjani, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…Table of Contents: 1 Introduction Part I Macro-issues in Agriculture 2 Structural Transformation and Growth: Whither Agriculture in Nepal 3 The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction in Nepal 4 Household Food Expenditure, Dietary Diversity, and Child Nutrition in Nepal 5 Food Inflation in Nepal and Its Implications 6 Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Sector of Nepal: Implications for Adaptation and Resilience Building Part II Productivity Growth and Its Drivers 7 Food Demand System and Projections to 2035: Nepal 8 Seed Sector Development in Nepal: Opportunities and Options for Improvement 9 Use of Chemical Fertilizers in Nepal-Issues and Implications 10 Agricultural Mechanization in Nepal-Patterns, Impacts, and Enabling Strategies for Promotion 11 Agricultural Research and Extension System in Nepal: An Organizational Review Part III Agricultural Diversification 12 Agricultural Diversification in Nepal 13 Non-timber Forest Products (NTFP) and Agro-forestry Subsectors: Potential for Growth and Contribution in Agriculture Development 14 Impact of Migration and Remittances on Agriculture: A Micro-Macro-analysis Part IV Agricultural Trade and Marketing 15 Trends, Structure and Drivers of Nepal’s Agricultural Trade 16 Agricultural Marketing and High-Value Chains: Enhanced Role for Private Sector Towards Value Chain Integration Part V Agricultural Trade and Marketing 17 Agrarian Relations, Institutions, and Land Reform in Nepal 18 Agricultural Credit and Insurance in Nepal: Coverage, Issues, and Opportunities 19 Nepal’s Changing Governance Structure and Implications for Agricultural Development Part VI The Policy Agenda 20 Concluding Chapter: The Policy Agenda…”
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Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria por Balana, Bedru, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo Ayowumi

“…On the demand-side, interventions such as crop insurance, information access and extension services are needed to increase credit access, technology adoption, and smallholder's agricultural productivity.…”
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Trends in US agricultural since 2000 and implications for the next twenty years por Glauber, Joseph W., Smith, Vincent H.

“…While maintaining the same underlying focus, over the past twenty years US agricultural policy has shifted from decoupled income support to price‐ and revenue‐based counter‐cyclical subsidy programmes, increased the coverage under a plethora of heavily subsidised agricultural insurance initiatives, and expanded the scope of conservation programmes. …”
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Five years of regional risk pooling: An updated cost-benefit analysis of the African risk capacity por Kramer, Berber, Rusconi, Rob, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…We discuss potential ways to lower premiums and strengthen the benefits to poor households, highlighting also the potential to realize welfare gains from improved risk management and investments ex ante, even during years without insurance payout.…”
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Women’s land rights in Africa por Ghebru, Hosaena

“…These hypothesized effects of tenure security rely heavily on the neoclassical framework that presupposes markets for all goods and services (including credit and insurance markets) exist and, therefore, market clearing prices determine demand and supply choices of households (Bardhan 1989; Hoff, Braverman, and Stiglitz 1993).…”
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Synopsis: 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 formations of RFCs and the implications of each in improving the access of rural households to financial services, including savings, credit, and insurance services. We find that some features of RFCs have varying implications for delivering various financial services. …”
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Heterogeneous preferences and the effects of incentives in promoting conservation agriculture in Malawi por Ward, Patrick S., Bell, Andrew R., Parkhurst, Gregory M., Droppelmann, Klaus, Mapemba, Lawrence

“…Rather than designing subsidies or voucher programs to increase CA adoption, it may be important to tailor insurance policies to address the new risks brought about by CA adoption.…”
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Social captial, legal institutions, and property rights: Overview por Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Group savings, credit, and insurance programs for women substitute collective action through the groups for conventional assets (such as land) as collateral (Sharma 2001).…”
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Gendered drivers of varietal turnover: A qualitative assessment for improved teff and wheat varieties in Ethiopia por Yami, Mastewal, Cavicchioli, Martina, Abate, Gashaw T., Kramer, Berber

“…Overall, the findings imply the need to adopt seed development and marketing strategies that pay close attention to the preferences of both producers and consumers, such as considering the importance of consumption attributes (e.g., not altering local recipes) and encouraging farmers to first experiment with new varieties on parts of their plots before adopting at scale or providing a risk management tool (e.g., insurance) that can protect farmers from potential risks associated with new technologies.…”
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A decision support tool for monitoring rice area, yield, and climate change impacts on rice production in Cote d’Ivoire. Initial piloting activities por Murugesan, Deiveegan, Satapathy, Sushree, Akpoffo, Marius, Gatti, Luca, Maunahan, Aileen, Dossou-Yovo, Elliot, Holecz, Francesco, Mathieu, Renaud, Ouedraogo, Mathieu

“…As part of this initiative, Work Package 2 (Digital Agriculture) is implementing the Remote Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies (RIICE) tool (www.riice.org) , which is piloted in the Bouake region of Ivory Coast. …”
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