The adoption of new agricultural
technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent
riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field
experiment to ask whether the provision of insurance against
a major source of production risk induces farmers to take
out loans to invest in a new crop variety. The study sample
was composed of roughly 800 maize and groundnut farmers in
Malawi, where by far the dominant source of production risk
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Library ResourceJune, 2012Malawi
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Library ResourceOctober, 2015Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania
Women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan
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