Lena Weingärtner’s scientific contributions

... The progressive marginalisation of producers from the instrument policy design (change in the actors in charge of the policy design) has resulted in an instrument that lacks effectivity by neglecting the producers consent and needs. Some producers misunderstand how the insurance works (Syll et Weingärtner 2019) and some do not know that they are insured. Even when producers are aware of their subscription and understand the product, they are incentivised a behaviour that the Senegalese peasant have refused to adopt for a century and continue to do so : dropping their strategies of risk diversification. ...

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Design spaces in the multilevel governance of agricultural adaptation policy instruments in Senegal

... Une faible couverture d'assurance suscite donc des problèmes qui diffèrent selon les régions et nécessitent une évaluation plus approfondie. Ce concept a été largement utilisé dans la littérature ces dernières années (Aguida et al., 2021 ;Fnitiz, 2023 ;Hountondji et al., 2018Hountondji et al., et 2019Syll et Weingärtner, 2017). Cependant, leur adoption reste très faible. ...

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Analyse bibliographique sur la perception, l’adoption et l’impact de l’assurance agricole indicielle sur la résilience des exploitations agricoles familiales