stochastic framework. More precisely, I analyse weather index insurance that guarantees farmers an indemnity payment contingent … location is near a weather station, and distant farmers. Results show that the latter ask for less than 50% insurance coverage … trust and a lack of knowledge about the insurance. I can show that a lack of trust reduces insurance demand most for close …

, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs … projects, in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium. We finally draw an … with other hedging methods. -- Agriculture ; Insurance ; Climatic Risk …

environment. Binding credit-market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected …, grants of or opportunities to purchase rainfall-index insurance, or a combination of the two. Demand for index insurance is … strong, and insurance leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture …

. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We … opportunities to purchase rainfall index insurance, or a combination of the two. Demand for index insurance is strong, and insurance … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …

. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We … opportunities to purchase rainfall index insurance, or a combination of the two. Demand for index insurance is strong, and insurance … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …

applications of remote sensing, index insurance, for which remote sensing triggers payments to farmers during loss years. Our case … study is of the largest participatory farmer remote sensing insurance projects in the developing world, the R4 Rural … index insurance continue to scale …

Researchers and policymakers have long understood the benefits of crop insurance but have been consistently … low perceived value, arguably because the existing insurance products are unsuited to farmers' needs. The present study … fills an important gap in rural development by improving upon existing insurance policy design by incorporating product …