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DocumentThe role of agriculture in reducing poverty in Tanzania: A household perspective from rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma 2006
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Book (stand-alone)Rural household vulnerability and insurance against commodity risks
Evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania
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No results found.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 r epresentative 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. The report applies descriptive, econometric and contingent valuation techniques to achieve its objectives. The findings identify drought, health and commodity price shocks as the key risks faced by rural households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma. The welfare losses associated with these shocks are substantial. Households extensively use self and mutual insurance to cope with these shocks, but nonetheless, there remains substantial uninsured risks as indicated by the considerable stated demand for coffee and weather based insurance which could have important societal benefits. The latent demand for insurance further suggests that current ways of coping may not be eff icient and that there may be important economic opportunities which insurance could open up. Liquidity constraints emerge as important impediments in adopting such market based insurance schemes. Great care will need to go into the design and institutional delivery mechanisms of market based insurance. The establishment of interlinked markets such as input, credit and insurance packages deserves special attention in this regard. Finally, other, more traditional, public intervention s such as providing public health services, fostering connectivity and access to off-farm employment, and better water management techniques were also identified as promising household vulnerability reducing interventions. -
ProjectSupporting the Resilience of Vulnerable Rural Households in Burkina Faso - GCP/BKF/070/SWE 2025
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Burkina Faso has seen a sharp deterioration in its security, political, institutional and health situation, resulting in a continuing, extreme worsening of food and nutrition security since 2015. Rural areas, where agriculture, livestock-breeding and forest-, wildlife- and fishery-resource harvesting employ around 90 percent of the active population and are the only source of livelihoods, have been hit the hardest. The project aimed to bring about positive, sustainable and equitable change, improving the living conditions and the food and nutrition security of pastoralists and agropastoralists in the Sahel, North, Centre-North and Boucle du Mouhoun regions, by promoting a peaceful environment and social cohesion. The adoption of good practices in natural resource use and sustainable management, the continuous improvement of agropastoral productivity by following a value chain approach, as well as the promotion of peace/social cohesion and sound nutrition practices were expected to strengthen communities’ resilience and reduce poverty.
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