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      SEGUROS AGRÍCOLAS BASADOS EN ÍNDICES CLIMÁTICOS: UN ESTUDIO DE CASO EN BOLIVIA Translated title: WEATHER INDEX-BASED CROP INSURANCE SCHEMES: A CASE STUDY IN BOLIVIA

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          Los seguros agrícolas basados en índices climáticos son instrumentos financieros novedosos para la gestión de riesgos de agricultores. A diferencia de los seguros tradicionales, éstos pueden mitigar e incluso anular el riesgo moral y la selección adversa, permitiendo abaratar sus primas. Esta característica hace de este tipo de seguros un mecanismo atractivo para economías en vías de desarrollo con gran parte de población rural sumida en severas condiciones de precariedad y, simultáneamente, se promueve el desarrollo de un mercado de seguros agrícolas. Este tipo de seguros no es aún empleado en Bolivia, pero su promoción por parte del aparato público tiene gran potencial de coadyuvar a la seguridad alimentaria y promover el desarrollo económico. El documento presenta algunas experiencias exitosas en el desarrollo de seguros basados en índices climáticos a nivel mundial y analiza el estado actual de desarrollo de este mercado en Bolivia. Se revisan en detalle los fundamentos técnicos de la creación de este tipo de seguros, a partir de los cuales, se presentan propuestas de esquemas paramétricos de seguros agrícolas basados en índices climáticos para la protección de cultivos de trigo y papa, ambos de ciclo intermedio, en el municipio de Anzaldo (sur-oeste de Cochabamba).

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          Weather index-based insurance schemes are novel financial instruments for agricultural risks management. A key difference between these insurance schemes and more traditional ones is the fact that the first can cope more effectively with adverse selection and moral hazard problems, yielding less expensive insurance contracts. This situation makes weather index-based insurance schemes more attractive than traditional schemes in regions where a large part of agriculture is poor and, at the same time, there is a perspective of creating an agricultural insurance market, such as our country. In Bolivia, these insurance schemes are still under developed, but their promotion through public efforts can help reduce vulnerability to food insecurity and promote inclusive economic development. This document presents successful experiences in developing this kind of insurance schemes in Latin America, based on which, we assess its feasibility in Bolivia. For this, we present details of the main technical characteristics of these schemes and develop proposals of insurance policies for two crops in Anzaldo (Municipality of Cochabamba): medium-cycle potato and wheat.

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                riyd
                Investigación & Desarrollo
                Inv. y Des.
                UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA BOLIVIANA (Cochabamba, , Bolivia )
                1814-6333
                2518-4431
                2014
                : 1
                : 14
                : 5-21
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Privada Boliviana orgdiv1Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales-CIEE
                Article
                S2518-44312014000100002
                da3b3b24-eaf2-4003-bbe3-0aff4b79c6c4

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 26 February 2014
                : 09 January 2014
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                SciELO Bolivia


                Índices Climáticos,Seguridad Alimentaria,Mercado de Seguros,Seguros Agrícolas,Desarrollo Económico,Weather Index,Food Security,Insurance Market,Agricultural Insurance,Economic Development

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