This paper reviews possibilities for, and experience with, credit-linked crop insurance, including different types of insurance and credit arrangements, ranging from insurance sold to individual farmers...
Agricultural insurance, defined here to include crop and livestock insurance, is an instrument of choice in many countries for helping farmers and rural communities cope with risk. This paper explores...
World Bank Group's Global Index Insurance Facility and ILO's Impact Insurance Facility jointly published a paper entitled 'when and how should agricultural insurance be subsidized? Issue and good practices'...
Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and agricultural employment is extremely diverse, even among regions starting from similar levels of development, such...
This paper presents new evidence on the capacity of agricultural growth to serve as an effective instrument for poverty reduction. The poverty reduction value of land and labor productivity growth and...
The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks to...
Durante los últimos dos años, el Banco Mundial volvió a estudiar su estrategia de desarrollo rural y, a su vez, desarrolló una nueva, a través de un compromiso renovado para un desarrollo sólido en el...
The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks to...
Farm fragmentation, in which a household operates more than one separate parcel of land, is a common phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa. Concerned by the perceived costs of fragmented as opposed to consolidated...
This paper is the tenth in a series of records of agricultural symposia presented at the World Bank beginning in 1980. This volume contains papers presented at the opening day plenary session and during...
This book discusses the total effects of the project on incomes and the net demands for goods and services in the economy. The differences between the total effects and the direct effects, the theme of...
Agricultural production, particularly in developing countries, is generally a risky process, and considerable evidence exists to suggest that farmers behave in risk averse ways. Yet risk considerations...
The way in which farmers form their price and yield expectations and the consequences of these expectations on ensuing market equilibrium when production is risky are examined. If rational expectations...
Exploration of some of the implications of a multiplicative risk model suggests that such a model leads to the rather surprising result that optimally distorted market prices are more efficient for social...
A general equilibrium model of Mexican agriculture is solved to evaluate the impacts on the sector of higher costs of agrochemicals and machinery operations and higher world market prices. The analysis...