Assessment of agriculture insurance linked to contract farming and government input subsidy scheme in Zambia

McCarthy, Nancy; Analytics, Lead; Mookerjee, Agrotosh; Hess, Ulrich; Kuhn, Saskia; Consultants, Risk Shield

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“…The product has been marketed bundled with input credit under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) by the Government, and some private participants such as NWK have also been participating. McCarthy et al (2020) noted that FISP WII was being marketed to cotton farmers by the agro-processing company NWK. Smallholder cotton farmers signed up voluntarily for the insurance coverage packaged with inputs at the beginning of the season, when they also received their input packages.…”

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“…The farming enterprise is increasingly being faced with production risk factors such as droughts, floods, diseases, pests, windstorms, accidents, fire, theft, damage and several other unplanned events whose occurrence cannot be readily predicted but stifle crop production and tie smallholders to poverty (McCarthy et al, 2020). The incidents of floods and waterlogging, and an outbreak of fall armyworm pests which have been predominant in the northern region of Zambia had not spared Kasama district.…”

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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Uptake of Agriculture Index Insurance among Smallholder Farmers—A Case of Kasama District in Zambia

Kaunda¹,

Chowa²

2023

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Kasama district is a rural farming district with a population of over 91,525 smallholder farmers. Smallholder farmers face several production risks including floods, pests and droughts which are being worsened due to climate change. To manage the impact of these risks, weather index insurance has been designed to help farmers hedge against the loss of income due to crop losses. However, the uptake of Weather Index Insurance (WII) in Zambia is low, and as for Kasama District, there is little documented information on factors influencing the uptake of WII among smallholder farmers. In this study, the Probit regression model was used to measure the expected change in the likelihood of uptake of WII given a unit change in the regressors. Data analysed were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire from 200 farmer respondents and an interview guide from 5 key informants purposively selected. The study drew participants from a population of smallholder farmers estimated to be 91,525 farmers in the district. SPSS and STATA were applied to analyse Quantitative data using the Chi-Square test at 5% and 1% levels of significance. The study concluded that age, knowledge of WII and alternative source of income were statistically significant factors influencing uptake of WII by smallholder farmers in Kasama district. In addition, whereas age and alternative income had a negative and significant effect on uptake, knowledge of WII had a positive and significant effect. Furthermore, the study concluded that education level, gender, the frequency of discussing WII during extension services meetings, perception on the price of WII, distance to the providers of insurance services from a farm, and use of traditional methods of managing production risks were not significant factors influencing How to cite this paper: Kaunda, S., & Chowa, T.

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Section: Farmer Input Support Program (Fisp) Index Insurance In Zambiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Uptake of Agriculture Index Insurance among Smallholder Farmers—A Case of Kasama District in Zambia

Kaunda¹,

Chowa²

2023

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Assessment of agriculture insurance linked to contract farming and government input subsidy scheme in Zambia

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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Uptake of Agriculture Index Insurance among Smallholder Farmers—A Case of Kasama District in Zambia

An Analysis of Factors Influencing Uptake of Agriculture Index Insurance among Smallholder Farmers—A Case of Kasama District in Zambia

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