Development of irrigation infrastructure in the Senegal River Valley has led to a large increase in average cultivation rates, though widespread heterogeneity exists across projects. Limited access to water remains a major constraint on production.
Index-based agricultural insurance has offered the promise of overcoming the hurdles of traditional indemnity-based insurance for economic development. This paper describes how existing constraints on take-up can partially be overcome using revised contract designs, advanced technology for better measurement, improved marketing and better policy.
In this study, AMA Innovation Lab researchers play a series of incentivized laboratory games with risk-exposed cooperative-based coffee farmers in Guatemala to understand the demand for index-based rainfall insurance.
This paper addresses the reasons for this current discrepancy between promise and reality. We conclude on perspectives for improvements in product design, complementary interventions to boost uptake, and strategies for sustainable scaling up of uptake.
This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing experimental games trying to better understand demand for incomplete insurance in Guatemala.
