Enabling Productive but Asset-Poor Farmers to Succeed : A Risk Financing Framework

This paper examines how market-based risk financing instruments could enable asset-poor but productive farmers exposed to production shocks to engage in riskier but higher-return agricultural activities. The financing of these exogenous shocks is a...

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Main Authors:	Gurenko, Eugene, Mahul, Olivier
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	RISK MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE FARM INCOME CROP INSURANCE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT POVERTY FARMERS FOOD & AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION ACTUARIAL SCIENCE ADVERSE SELECTION AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE ANALYTICAL APPROACH AVERAGE YIELDS BANANAS CAPITAL MARKETS CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS CATASTROPHE COVERAGE CATASTROPHES CATASTROPHIC RISKS CDF COCOA COMMODITY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK CONTRACTUAL SAVINGS COVERAGE CREDIT CROP CROP ROTATION CROP YIELD CROP YIELDS CROPS DEBT DEFORESTATION DISASTERS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES EXCHANGE RATES EXPECTED RETURN FAO FARM FARMER FARMING FARMS FEASIBILITY STUDIES FERTILIZERS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL RISK FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL STRUCTURE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES HERBICIDES INCOME INSURABILITY INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANIES INSURANCE MARKETS INSURANCE PREMIUMS INSURANCE PRODUCTS INSURERS INTEREST RATE INTEREST RATES LIQUID ASSETS LIQUIDITY MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARKET RISK MORAL HAZARD OPERATING LOSSES POLLUTION POOR FARMERS PRICE RISK PRODUCERS PRODUCTION COSTS PRODUCTIVITY PROFIT MARGIN PROFITABILITY PROGRAMS REINSURANCE RESERVES RISK MANAGEMENT POLICIES RISK TRANSFER SAVINGS SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SYSTEMIC RISK TRANSACTION COSTS VALUE ADDED WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/3916582/enabling-productive-asset-poor-farmers-succeed-risk-financing-framework http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14743

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Enabling Productive but Asset-Poor Farmers to Succeed : A Risk Financing Framework

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