agricultural traders in Madagascar perceive relationships as the most important factor for success in their business …; the regularity of trade flows; and the mitigation of risk. Of these, the regularity of supply and demand and the sharing … of risk appear particularly important. Larger and more pros-perous traders are those with quantitatively and …

macro data for Madagascar. The results indicate that the approach is powerful and flexible, supporting the efficient use of …

risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance … educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low …. We also assess how willingness to pay varied as two key characteristics of the contract were varied and find that basis …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary … risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools …