What is it about?
As this paper intends to convey the message community based livestock insurance program can change livelihoods of rural people with its multiplier effect on social and economic part of people's lives, such local ideas should be respected while designing development plan by government or development agencies working for the rural people.
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Why is it important?
Three years of research period measured the outcomes of livestock insurance program reflecting its contribution in income, food security and access in services
Perspectives
We assumed that the livestock insurance through non-life insurance companies might take time to get momentum.Farmers believed that they feel more comfortable to participate in the community based insurance program rather than insurance scheme from companies.
Manoj Kaphle
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This page is a summary of: Livestock Insurance as a Coping Strategy Against Economic Loss and Food Insecurity: A Case From Rural Communities of Nawalparasi District Nepal, Journal of International Development, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jid.3299.
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