Agricultural insurance: Policies and programs for reducing farmer risk

Francisco Ceballos, Peter B. R. Hazell, Ruth Vargas Hill and Berber Kramer

Chapter 10 in Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world, 2025-05-28, pp 245-264 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Farm households face many market and production risks to their livelihoods, food security, and economic well-being. Agricultural insurance is intended to help protect households from risk, but many agricultural risks are difficult to insure against and demand for insurance products remains low. This chapter examines how policy-oriented research has encouraged public investment, facilitated farmer use, and improved farmer welfare, and explores how new technologies and approaches are creating opportunities for increasing coverage. Book link: ("https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108")

Keywords: insurance; agricultural insurance; risk reduction; farmers; economic policies; crop insurance; weather index insurance; artificial intelligence; machine learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-05-28
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