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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.
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Innovations in insuring the poor: Experience with weather index-based insurance in India and Malawi
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in countries as diverse as India, Malawi, Mongolia, and Thailand.
Agriculture in Ethiopia is almost entirely rainfed and highly prone to droughts and floods. Given that 85 percent of the population depends on smallholder agriculture, these weather shocks severely affect many Ethiopians.
Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to year.
This brief describes two case studies as follows: "Sub-Saharan Africa, with the highest fertility rate in the world, faces increasing demographic pressure on its natural resource base....
According to the authors, "Both national and international economic environments have changed substantially in the past decade and a half.
This brief defines property rights and collective action and discusses the links to sustainability of natural resource management and agricultural systems and to poverty reduction, as well as the implications for policy and practice.
Governments are now shifting their role from direct management of irrigation systems to regulation of the water sector, provision of support services to water user associations, and capacity building among water user associations and irrigation se
According to the author, Given the vital importance of public goods in providing basic services necessary for alleviating poverty and in managing the local natural resource base for sustainable development, this brief offers an approach to underst
In this brief, we explore the role that social institutions -specifically property rights and collective action - may play in the development of agroforestry....
The author tells us that Collective action occurs when more than one individual is required to contribute to an effort in order to achieve an outcome.