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Towards a Sustainable Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme

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Since 1986, Government of Botswana has been running an Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme for dry-land arable farming. The scheme purports to assist dry-land crop farmers who have taken loans with participating banks or lending institutions to help them meet their debt obligations in case of crop failure due to drought, floods, frost or hailstorm. Nonetheless, to date, the scheme has focused solely on drought. The scheme has placed an unsustainable financial burden on Government because it is not based on sound actuarial principles. This paper argues that the level of Government subsidies should take into account the gains made by farmers during non-drought years. It is an attempt to circumvent the challenges of correlated climate risks and recommends a quasi self-financing mechanism, assuming that the major driver of crop yield failure is drought. Moreover, it provides a novel subsidy and premium rate setting method.

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  • Reason Lesego Machete, 2020. "Towards a Sustainable Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme," Papers 2007.11618, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2020.
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