In much of the developing world, climate change is expected to increase the risk from extreme weather events, and scaling insurance is vital to enhance agricultural risk management and adaptation among the rural poor.
Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change.
Financial instruments such as savings, loans, and insurance are critical tools in managing risk for smallholder farmers across the developing world.
Scaling insurance to transfer climate risk from the rural poor to financial markets is vital to enhance agricultural risk management in developing countries, but insurance programs need to address several challenges in order to improve resilience
Production risk is pervasive in agriculture, yet smallholder farmers lack access to quality insurance.
We conduct an artefactual field experiment with farmers in endogenously formed groups in rural Malawi to investigate social influence in risk taking. Our experiment minimizes influence through social learning and social image channels.
Most of the studies that investigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture have concentrated on the effects of changes in mean temperature and precipitation even though the importance of volatility and risk on farmers’ decision making is we
Aflatoxin contamination in maize represents a significant food safety hazard in Kenya. To manage this risk, millers need to properly sample incoming bags of maize.
Risk and risk preferences are considered as important drivers on farm management, crop choice, and land use decisions. A farmer’s choice of risk management strategies is of vital importance for the viability and continuation of the farm business.
This introductory paper sets out the rationale for revisiting questions surrounding biofuel futures in Southern Africa and exploring the case for the establishment of a regional market.
The frequency of natural disasters, especially storms and floods, has been increasing globally over the last several decades.
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage.
IFPRI, together with partners from India as well as the academic community, pioneered in testing whether smartphone camera data could strengthen insurance products in India.
The study explores the diffusion process of innovators, early adopters, and late adopters of agricultural technologies.
Low-income households around the world are particularly vulnerable to shocks, but also the least prepared when a shock hits.
This dataset serves to shed light on the feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI), which is a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance, using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verific
Using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in NW India.
