Investigators from University of California Davis Report New Data on Risk Management (Can Digitally-enabled Financial Instruments Secure an Inclusive Agricultural Transformation?): Risk Management

2022 OCT 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting originating in Davis, California, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Research shows that risk management will be key if an agricultural transformation that includes the smallholder farm sector is to occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. While the smallholder farm sector has historically had poor access to financial and other risk management tools, digital technologies are rapidly impacting the cost and availability of savings, credit, and insurance services in remote rural regions.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of California Davis, “While these services are all different ways of moving money through time, and thus would seem to be substitutes for each other, they are characterized by quite different pre-requisites in terms of trust and understanding, and in terms of required tangible and reputational assets. This observation suggests that resilience and an inclusive agricultural transformation might be best promoted by a flexible system that offers indexed risk management tools that can meet the needs of households that enjoy different assets and beliefs. This article lays out this logic and models the use and impacts of a system of flexible financial tools for risk management and an inclusive agricultural transformation. Key findings include that farmers will optimally combine all three financial instruments.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The model also shows that these combined financial risk management tools are by themselves sufficient to induce agricultural intensification for less poor, but not for the deeply poor households who have already been decapitalized by shocks.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Can Digitally-enabled Financial Instruments Secure an Inclusive Agricultural Transformation? Agricultural Economics, 2022. Agricultural Economics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Agricultural Economics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1574-0862)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Michael R. Carter, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12743. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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