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Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using...
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Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040181
This paper introduced a new set of rainfall indices which can be used as building blocks for designing rainfall derivatives contracts. Such a set was defined as deficit rainy days (DRD)/ excess rainy days (ERD) indices and computed for selected meteorological sub-divisions of India. The study...
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Farmers in India have been the victim of systemic neglect and live a marginalized life. Crop failure due to natural calamities and unfavourable climatic conditions puts farmers in a challenging situation leading to extreme hopelessness and suicides. This article provides an overview of the crop...
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The Indian financial system has changed considerably since the 1990s. Interest rates have been deregulated and new entrants allowed in the banking and the securities business. The Indian equity market has become world-class. New private banks have emerged that are more customer-oriented than the...
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Floods and droughts represent an embedded monsoon factor impacting the Indian economy. Evaluating monsoon risk based on rainfall index metrics could help design appropriate alternative risk transfer products. This study proposes a new set of rainfall indices that can be used to explore the...
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Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity …, the right step to take is to adequately finance agriculture in order to ensure sufficient food production and safety that … will save the future of the country. This study emphasizes on investment in agriculture to guarantee food security in …
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depend on agriculture for their livelihood and well-being. This paper attempts to build a picture of the vulnerability of …
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to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in … institutional sources in 2012-13 covered 100 per cent of the input cost in agriculture in that year according to the National …
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For several decades, the government has sought to develop the agriculture sector through programs like agrarian reform … with policy reforms and new strategies to fast-track the development of the food and agriculture sector to make economic …
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