Karlan, Dean; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - 2012
. The salient constraint to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary … catastrophic risk they face, farmers are able to find resources to increase expenditure on their farms. Demand for insurance in … presence of important basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be …