Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: A Review

By R. Bhattamishra, Christopher B. Barrett. 2010

133 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Safety Research

1. Ruslan G. Yemtsov
2. H. Binswanger-Mkhize
3. H. Alderman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. H. Binswanger-Mkhize
2. H. Alderman
3. Ruslan G. Yemtsov
4. Christopher B. Barrett

In Soil Science

1. H. Binswanger-Mkhize
2. H. Alderman
3. Ruslan G. Yemtsov

Citations in the corpus

• How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth? (2013, background): “…ber.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from range of strategies to smooth consumption in the wake of a setback, informal sharing arrangements tend to fall short for the poor in most circumstances as well as for the general population in times of covariate shocks (Bhattamishra and Barrett, 2010).”
• Is There Too Much Hype about Index-based Agricultural Insurance? (2012, background): “An enormous literature shows that farmers and landless workers do not passively accept the risks that their environments present to their profits and livelihoods (Anderson, 2003; Bhattamishra and Barrett, 2008, 2010).”
• Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam (2016, unknown): “In their recent review of community-based risk management, Bhattamishra and Barrett (2010) identi fi ed several different risk-management functions such as mutual insurance, insurance for major life events, savings and credit facilities, social assistance facilities, and public goods and services.”
• Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar (2014, background): “Village savings and loans groups in which members pool resources and lend to members in need are also a low-cost solution that could help to reduce the worst impacts of the lean season or extreme weather events, while creating local funds that farmers can tap into for other development activities [5”