Arbeitspapier

Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management

Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the sustainability of rangeland management. We show that a rain-index insurance with frequent payoffs, i.e. a high strike level, leads to the choice of less sustainable grazing management than without insurance available. However, a rain-index insurance with a low to medium strike level enhances the farmer's well-being while not impairing the sustainability of rangeland management.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 149

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
Agricultural Finance
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
Thema
Ecological-economic modeling
weather-index insurance
Namibia
grazing management
risk
sustainability
weather-based derivatives

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Müller, Birgit
Quaas, Martin
Frank, Karin
Baumgärtner, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
(wo)
Lüneburg
(wann)
2009

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Müller, Birgit
  • Quaas, Martin
  • Frank, Karin
  • Baumgärtner, Stefan
  • Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Entstanden

  • 2009

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