Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk

dc.creatorCeballos, Francisco
dc.creatorHazell, Peter B. R.
dc.creatorHill, Ruth Vargas
dc.creatorKramer, Berber
dc.date2025-05-28
dc.date2025-04-23T19:52:38Z
dc.date2025-04-23T19:52:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:25:52Z
dc.descriptionFarm households face many market and production risks to their livelihoods, food security, and economic well-being. Agricultural insurance is intended to help protect households from risk, but many agricultural risks are difficult to insure against and demand for insurance products remains low. This chapter examines how policy-oriented research has encouraged public investment, facilitated farmer use, and improved farmer welfare, and explores how new technologies and approaches are creating opportunities for increasing coverage. Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174303
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104166
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134903
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134751
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-111220-014147
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCeballos, Francisco; Hazell, Peter B. R.; Hill, Ruth Vargas; and Kramer, Berber. 2025. Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk. In Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world, eds. Johan Swinnen and Christopher Barrett. Part Three: Supporting Farmers, Chapter 10, Pp. 245-264. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174303
dc.subjectinsurance
dc.subjectagricultural insurance
dc.subjectrisk reduction
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjecteconomic policies
dc.subjectcrop insurance
dc.subjectweather index insurance
dc.subjectartificial intelligence
dc.subjectmachine learning
dc.titleAgricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk
dc.typeBook Chapter

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