Desingn of Rice Crop Insurance in Semi-arid Cameroon

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26660187
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural science in rural society and development
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUI Seiichi 京都大学, 農学研究科, 教授 (90134197)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 伊藤 雅之 京都大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 研究員 (70456820) ; 高篠 仁奈 東北大学, 農学研究科, 助教 (80507145)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 気象インデックス / 小口作物保険 / 農家行動モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to investigate what kind of index we should use for designing an appropriate crop insurance for the poor in a rice growing area of Cameroon. For that purpose, we have collected a artefactual rainfall data, and a satelite biomass data. In addition, we also collected a farm household data and input-output data of rice production.
Using these information, we have measured the maximun well-being levels under different types of index and household model, and comapared them. The tentative conclusion is that if we use the maximized well-being of rice farmers under the satelite biomass index, household well-being of rice growing farmer can be maximized.

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