{"id":1994,"date":"2011-05-11T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2011-05-11T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:42:19","slug":"index-insurance-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1994","title":{"rendered":"Index Insurance in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a\u00a0<a title=\"Doing More Than Praying for Rain\" href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/09\/doing-more-than-praying-for-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on the <em>New York Times<\/em>&#8216; Opinionator blog:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The insecurity of farming sabotages yields even when the weather is good.\u00a0 Because of the risk, many farmers are unwilling to bet all their money on a crop, so they sow only a portion of their land.\u00a0\u00a0 Or they use poor quality seeds because they do not want to increase their risks by spending more.\u00a0 Risk makes it very difficult for farmers to get credit to buy needed seeds, fertilizer, herbicides or insecticides, so their yields are stunted.\u00a0 These are people who can ill afford to get less than the maximum from their plots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Weather insurance for small farmers has always faced numerous barriers.\u00a0 But throughout east Africa today there are projects finding creative and innovative ways to overcome them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is quite \u00e0 propos, as I am going to Washington, DC this weekend for the <a title=\"Index Insurance Innovation Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/i4.ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Index Insurance Innovation Initiative<\/a> (I4) technical workshop, which will convene the I4 grant recipients to discuss the technical details of index insurance implementation and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: Chris Paul.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a\u00a0post on the New York Times&#8216; Opinionator blog: &#8220;The insecurity of farming sabotages yields even when the weather is good.\u00a0 Because of the risk,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1994\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Index Insurance in Africa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,43,16,55,49,42,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-crop-insurance","category-development","category-economics","category-impact-evaluation","category-insurance","category-micro","category-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-wa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}