The influence of gender and product design on farmers' preferences for weather-indexed crop insurance.

ABSTRACT: Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to women farmers who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change risk and have low adaptive capacity. To date, no quantitative studies have experimentally explored weather-index insurance preferences through a gender lens, and little information exists regarding gender-specific preferences for (and constraints to) smallholder investment in agricultural weather-index insurance. This study responds to this gap, and advances the understanding of preference heterogeneity for weather-index insur

SUBMITTER: Akter S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4862443 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature