Rural household vulnerability and insurance against commodity risks: evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania/ edited by Luc Christiaensen and Alexander Sarris.

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Series: FAO commodities and trade technical paper ; v. 10Publication details: Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Trade and Markets Division, 2007.Description: viii, 222 p.: ill.; 30 cmISBN:

9789251058114 (pbk.)
9251058113 (pbk.)

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ORG HD9000.5 F36 no.10

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Summary: "This report has two objectives. It assesses the nature and the extent of vulnerability among rural households in Tanzania with a particular focus on smallholder cash crop growers through exploring all risks, including the decline in commodity prices. It further explores the potential role for market based insurance schemes such as commodity price and weather based insurance to mitigate household vulnerability. The empirical analysis is based on two rounds of specifically designed representative surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash crop growing regions in the United Republic of Tanzania in 2003 and 2004. The contrasting experiences of a richer (Kilimanjaro) and a poorer (Ruvuma) region substantially enriches the policy guidance emerging from the report"--Publisher’s description

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Books	Main	ORG HD9000.5 F36 NO.10 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		82783-1001

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"This report has two objectives. It assesses the nature and the extent of vulnerability among rural households in Tanzania with a particular focus on smallholder cash crop growers through exploring all risks, including the decline in commodity prices. It further explores the potential role for market based insurance schemes such as commodity price and weather based insurance to mitigate household vulnerability. The empirical analysis is based on two rounds of specifically designed representative surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash crop growing regions in the United Republic of Tanzania in 2003 and 2004. The contrasting experiences of a richer (Kilimanjaro) and a poorer (Ruvuma) region substantially enriches the policy guidance emerging from the report"--Publisher’s description

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