Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing

By Christopher B. Barrett, B. Barnett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, James Hansen, Andrew G. Mude, Daniel Osgood, J. Skees, Calum Turvey, M. Ward. 2007

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

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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges (2013, background): “67 000 households (Barrett et al., 2009) that cultivate wheat, millet, cowpea and maize.”
Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction (2018, background): “…farmer adoption of the technologies and practices reviewed here appears to be one factor that has limited their contribution to food security, climate resilience and poverty reduction goals (Adesina and Chianu, 2002; Conteh et al., 2016; Deressa et al., 2009; Marenya and Barrett, 2007).”
Applicability Of The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index In Index-Based Crop Insurance Design (2012, unknown): “In the developing world, index-based insurance is seen as a method of providing risk protection to communities previously thought to be uninsurable (Skees 2008, Barrett et al. 2007).”
Designing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya (2013, methodology): “We also employ household-level panel data collected quarterly by the USAID Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) project (Barrett et al. 2008) to analyze and simulate the IBLI contract’s performance out of sample.”
Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate (2007, background): “For the risk-averse smallholder farmer, climate-related risk appears to be a significant disincentive to the investment in productive assets (Barrett et al., 2007a) and adoption of improved technology needed to move toward prosperity (Kebede, 1992; Marra et al., 2003).”
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion (2012, background): “Compared to microfinance, micro-insurance innovation and availability is much more limited – although potentially just as important (Alderman and Haque, 2007; Barrett et al., 2007).”
Agricultural Index Insurance for Development (2017, background): “In principle, insurance can also crowd-in credit, as households with asset or income insurance pose less risk to creditors (Alderman and Haque 2007; Barrett et al. 2007; Carter, Galarza, and Boucher 2007; Carter, Cheng, and Sarris 2016).”