Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Trade and Markets Division, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Christiaensen, Luc J.
• Sarris, Alexander
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Trade and Markets Division.

Description

viii, 222 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

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.

Series Statement

FAO commodities and trade technical paper ; 10

Uniform Title

FAO commodities and trade technical paper ; 10.

Subjects

• Households
• Primary commodities > Prices
• Risk (Insurance)
• Rural poor
• Households > Tanzania
• Primary commodities > Prices > Tanzania
• Risk (Insurance) > Tanzania
• Rural poor > Tanzania
• Tanzania > Rural conditions
• Rural conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available both in print and online.

Call Number

ReCAP 18-7866

ISBN

• 9789251058114
• 9251058113

LCCN

2008372075

OCLC

187291950

Title

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

Publisher

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Trade and Markets Division, 2007.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

FAO commodities and trade technical paper ; 10

FAO commodities and trade technical paper ; 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats

Available both in print and online.

Connect to:

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1310e/A1310E.pdf

Table of contents

http://www.fao.org/3/a-a1310e.pdf

Added Author

Christiaensen, Luc J., editor.

Sarris, Alexander, editor.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Trade and Markets Division.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 18-7866