How do small-holder farmers understand insurance, and how much do they want it? Evidence from Africa

Patt, Anthony; Suarez, Pablo; Hess, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.10.007

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“…These methods include remote-sensing technology, micro-level household data, analysis of diversification, and farm surveys. Implementation of such insurance instruments requires appropriate technical innovation, building awareness and trust, ensuring viable market demand, and enhancing local capacity building among local financial institutions [162,163].…”

Section: Livestock Management and Animal Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although not addressed here, other index insurance products promote the integration of rural households into market production and often are used in concert with programmes aimed at promoting agricultural value chains and supply chain risk management [162]. These kinds of programmes consolidate and facilitate the participation in the agricultural value chain by specific populations in discrete regions, and they are intended to help increase farmers' access to credit and to encourage investment in appropriate technology to increase productivity.…”

Section: Livestock Management and Animal Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

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Background: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional lands. CSA focuses on contributing to economic development, poverty reduction and food security; maintaining and enhancing the productivity and resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystem functions, thus building natural capital; and reducing trade-offs involved in meeting these goals. Current gaps in knowledge, work within CSA, and agendas for interdisciplinary research and science-based actions identified at the 2013 Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (Davis, CA, USA) are described here within three themes: (1) farm and food systems, (2) landscape and regional issues and (3) institutional and policy aspects. The first two themes comprise crop physiology and genetics, mitigation and adaptation for livestock and agriculture, barriers to adoption of CSA practices, climate risk management and energy and biofuels (theme 1); and modelling adaptation and uncertainty, achieving multifunctionality, food and fishery systems, forest biodiversity and ecosystem services, rural migration from climate change and metrics (theme 2). Theme 3 comprises designing research that bridges disciplines, integrating stakeholder input to directly link science, action and governance.

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“…Work has begun to compare how well players learn during games compared to more traditional methods such as slideshow presentations (Patt et al 2010), but more long-term monitoring will be needed for the greater impact of games to be assessed (Mendler de Suarez et al 2012;Harteveld and Suarez 2015). This can be challenging and requires systematic assessment.…”

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Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

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Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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The impacts of weather and climate-related disasters are increasing, and climate change can exacerbate many disasters. Effectively communicating climate risk and integrating science into policy requires scientists and stakeholders to work together. But dialogue between scientists and policymakers can be challenging given the inherently multidimensional nature of the issues at stake when managing climate risks. Building on the growing use of serious games to create dialogue between stakeholders, we present a new game for policymakers called Climate Attribution Under Loss and Damage: Risking, Observing, Negotiating (CAULDRON). CAULDRON aims to communicate understanding of the science attributing extreme events to climate change in a memorable and compelling way, and create space for dialogue around policy decisions addressing changing risks and loss and damage from climate change. We describe the process of developing CAULDRON, and draw on observations of players and their feedback to demonstrate its potential to facilitate the interpretation of probabilistic climate information and the understanding of its relevance to informing policy. Scientists looking to engage with stakeholders can learn valuable lessons in adopting similar innovative approaches. The suitability of games depends on the policy context but, if used appropriately, experiential learning can drive coproduced understanding and meaningful dialogue.

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“…Trained farmers with access to accurate information make better management decisions (for example choosing crop varieties that are less dependent on volatile rainfall; Di Falco et al 2010) and are more likely to use insurance as a risk mitigation tool (Patt et al 2010a). …”

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Climate change, adaptation and economic growth

2011

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This paper explores the links between economic growth and the impacts of climate change. Inclusive, pro-poor growth is central to the development of low-income countries. There is also a broad consensus that growth and development are important to reduce vulnerability to climate change. Growth does not automatically reduce vulnerability, only the right kind of growth does. The paper aims to develop a better understanding of what the "right kind of growth" may be. We find that many growth policies, such as investment in skills and access to finance, indeed reduce vulnerability to climate change. However, climate change calls for some adjustments in growth policy. In particular, investment in infrastructure and efforts to stimulate entrepreneurship and competitive markets must take more of a risk management perspective and recognise climate risks.

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How do small-holder farmers understand insurance, and how much do they want it? Evidence from Africa

Cited by 98 publications

References 43 publications

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science

Climate change, adaptation and economic growth

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