Weather shocks affect smallholder farmers and pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa
unequally. Agricultural insurance has emerged as a safety net option to protect farmers' …

We conducted a two‐treatment randomized control trial in northern Ghana to investigate
how bundling index insurance with agricultural loans affects smallholder access to credit. In …

Index insurance has been touted as part of an adaptation strategy to mitigate climate risks
among smallholder farmers. However, in the face of increasing drought probabilities …

Index‐based microinsurance is a promising risk management tool for smallholder farmers.
Recently, several mobile‐delivered insurance schemes have entered the market …

Index‐insured loans offer considerable advantages over standalone insurance policies for
improving farmers' access to agricultural credit. However, research on demand for such …

We employ a discrete choice experiment to elicit demand and supply side preferences for
insurance‐linked credit, a promising market‐based tool for managing agricultural weather …

Low income households in agrarian developing economies face considerable livelihood
risks, which have negative impacts on welfare. A growing literature focuses on internal …

Recent research suggests that coupling microfinance loans with an index insurance policy
may be a cost-effective way to expand credit market access to smallholder farmers in …

The adoption of advanced agricultural technologies in Sub‐Saharan Africa remains
disappointingly low, particularly among the millions of poor smallholders who account for …

Index insurance programs in developing countries have focused almost entirely on
agricultural production risk (ie, yield) while largely avoiding output marketing risk (ie, price) …