Researchers from Adigrat University Describe Findings in Crop Insurance (Impact of weather index crop insurance on smallholder farmers’ multidimensional food security: evidence from Ethiopia): Agriculture – Crop Insurance

2023 DEC 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Daily -- Research findings on crop insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from Adigrat University by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Weather events have threatened the realization of food security in Ethiopia.”

Funders for this research include Adigrat University.

The news editors obtained a quote from the research from Adigrat University: “Weather-index crop insurance (WICI) is a risk-transferring strategy recently introduced to farmers in Ethiopia. The study aims to assess the impact of WICI on smallholder farmers’ multidimensional food security. To realize its objective, relevant indicators, and the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index were applied to capture the multidimensional realities of food security and the propensity score matching technique to examine the impact. The results show that WICI has a significant positive impact on smallholder farmers’ availability, access, utilization and food stability. Besides, the insured farmers have lower incidence, depth, and severity of food insecurity by 9.44%, 3.24% and 1.06% than non-insured farmers. Thus, to realize progress in food security, we advocate improving smallholder farmers’ access to affordable WICI products: the existing pilot crop insurance projects shall be used as a milestone to establish an all-inclusive crop insurance program in Ethiopia.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The study urges due attention and integrated efforts to build a reliable weather database system and solve smallholder farmers’ meager willingness to pay. It contributes to the debate on how WICI impacts farmers’ multidimensional food security, arouses further studies on the issue and policy action on building shock-resilient food security.”

For more information on this research see: Impact of weather index crop insurance on smallholder farmers’ multidimensional food security: evidence from Ethiopia. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023,21(1). The publisher for International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is Taylor & Francis Group.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2023.2255451.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yohannes Halefom Gebretsadik, Adigrat University.

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