Agricultural Market Insurance Development : Policy Note - Brazil
Over the last decades, the government of Brazil has developed a risk management strategy with the goal of reducing the volatility of cash flow in the agricultural sector and the vulnerability of the less privileged stakeholders in the rural areas (...
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Format: | Policy Note |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Brasilia
2019
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/307931562831014089/Brazil-Agricultural-Market-Insurance-Development-Policy-Note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32203 |
Summary: | Over the last decades, the government of
Brazil has developed a risk management strategy with the
goal of reducing the volatility of cash flow in the
agricultural sector and the vulnerability of the less
privileged stakeholders in the rural areas (that is, family
farmers). Setting up a comprehensive national agriculture
risk management strategy (and subsequent plan and policy)
and ensuring an effective inter-institutional and
inter-departmental coordination, can be a more effective way
than merely increasing the budget of existing programs (or
creating new ones) to reduce the exposure of the
agricultural sector to shocks. In this regard, most
stakeholders in Brazil agree that existing agriculture risk
management programs in Brazil should be reviewed with the
aim of improving the allocation of fiscal resources and
guaranteeing a greater positive impact on programsĀ“ target
population. To this end, Brazilian authorities are looking
to learn from international experiences and examining an
integrated public-private partnership (PPP) system for
agricultural insurance that helps the government (both
federal and state) to improve fiscal resilience to shocks
and reduce farmersĀ“ vulnerability to disasters. The
objective of the policy note is to identify the
opportunities in the improvement of the agricultural
insurance system through policy and program reform. In
particular, the note focuses on: (i) the strengthening of
the existing legal and regulatory framework, (ii) the
institutional and operational framework, and (iii) the
improvement of existing government funded programs. |
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