Unlocking smallholder credit: does credit-linked agricultural insurance work?

Impact Insurance Facility.; International Finance Corporation.; Global Index Insurance Facility.

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Unlocking smallholder credit: does credit-linked agricultural insurance work?

Impact Insurance Facility., International Finance Corporation. and Global Index Insurance Facility.

Microinsurance paper, no. 50, ILO

2017

Abstract

insurance

peasant farmer

agriculture

This paper reviews possibilities for, and experience with, credit-linked crop insurance, including different types of insurance and credit arrangements, ranging from insurance sold to individual farmers to meso insurance sold to financial service providers to cover losses suffered by farmer borrowers.

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Title: Unlocking smallholder credit; does credit-linked agricultural insurance work?
Creators: Impact Insurance Facility.
International Finance Corporation.
Global Index Insurance Facility.
Publisher: ILO; Geneva
Date published: 2017
Series: Microinsurance paper; no. 50
Number of pages: viii, 46 p.
ISSN: 2303-9191.
Language: English
Asset Type: working paper
Record Identifier: 995219144902676
Table of contents: 1. Introduction and objectives -- 2. Challenges created by farm level risks -- 3. How might credit-linked insurance resolve some of the problems that farmers, FSPs, and insurers now face? -- 4. Alternative institutional mechanisms for providing credit-linked insurance -- 5. What situations may not be well suited for credit-linked insurance? -- 6. Impacts of credit-linked insurance on credit markets -- 7. Constraints on the development of credit-linked insurance -- 8. The role of supportive agents and government policies -- 9. Key lessons -- Reference.