Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation … Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests migrants are additionally motivated to remit as a form of self-insurance against own shocks …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation … Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests migrants are additionally motivated to remit as a form of self-insurance against own shocks …

essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings …

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 …

group savings does not alter demand for insurance, though group savings is found to be a particularly popular risk …Farmers in rural Bangladesh face multiple sources of uninsured risk to agricultural production and household assets. In … smallholder farmers’ interest in formal insurance products. We propose a suite of insurance and savings products, and we …