New Agricultural Insurance Findings Reported from International Food Policy Research Institute (Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative Agricultural Insurance: a Literature Review): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2023 MAR 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Agriculture - Agricultural Insurance is now available. According to news originating from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In many low-income countries, agricultural producers face significant climate-related risks that undermine the resilience of their production and food supply systems. Agricultural insurance can help mitigate some of these risks, enabling farmers to increase farm investments, incomes, and food and nutritional security.”

Financial supporters for this research include CCAFS, PIM, UU, Cultivate Africa’s Future Phase 2 program by Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR), International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from International Food Policy Research Institute, “This paper conducts a literature review to evaluate the extent to which agricultural insurance is gender-inclusive and gender-responsive (i.e., reaches and benefits both women and men), and whether there is potential for such insurance to empower women or even become gender-transformative. We find that existing agricultural insurance products are designed and delivered in ways that limit reach and benefits of insurance for women. Empirical research has focused less on the question whether insurance empowers women, let alone whether it has a transformative effect by changing institutional norms that perpetuate gender inequities. We present a case study of a crop insurance program in Kenya to discuss how agricultural insurance, if adequately designed, can have stronger impacts on gender-related outcomes.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Empirically testing these approaches to agricultural insurance design is a key priority for future research.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative Agricultural Insurance: a Literature Review. Global Food Security, 2023;36. Global Food Security can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Global Food Security - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-food-security/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Anne G. Timu, International Food Policy Research Institute Ifpri, Environm & Prod Technol Div, Washington, DC 20005, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100672. 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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