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The Farmer’s Perspective: Climate Risk and Risk Management in Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Sector

STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE: Gender-lens investing in climate and disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions

The Differential Risk Transfer: a new approach for reducing vulnerability to climate-related hazards
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Insuring Against the Weather: Integrating generic weather index products with group based savings and loans

This research considers the following question: how can generic weather index products be disigned and combined […]

Food Reserves in Developing Countries: Trade Policy Options for Improved Food Security

Agricultural prices, along with the prices of primary commodities in general, have been both high and […]

Weather Insurance for Farmers: Experience from Ethiopia

Agriculture is the dominant sector in the Ethiopian economy where 83% of the population fully depends […]

Dynamic Demand for Index-Based Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps

More than 3 million households in northern Kenya’s arid and semi arid lands depend primarily on […]

Challenges to Evaluating Index Insurance:A Case Study from Peru

This presentation reviews a basic primer on index insurance, including what it is and its advantages and challenges, before […]

Climate change and weather risk management: evidence from index-based insurance schemes in China and Ethiopia

This chapter introduces and reviews WFP’s weather index-based insurance pilot schemes at both the macro and […]

Introduction to Reinsurance

The Primer Series on Insurance provides a summary overview of how the insurance industry works, the […]

How did international price movements affect domestic economies and food security during the world food crisis?

This presentation examines the extent to which world price spikes for rice, wheat and maize were […]

Jamaica: Introducing Innovative Agriculture Weather Risk Management Mechanisms for Small Farmers

This document provides an initial assessment for improving and introducing innovative weather risk management mechanisms for […]

Weather and Climate Services in Europe and Central Asia A Regional Review

This paper reviews the status of weather and climate services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). […]

Index Insurance for Climate Risk Management & Poverty Reduction: TOPICS FOR DEBATE

Index-based financial risk-transfer mechanisms (referred to as index insurance in the rest of the paper) are […]

Stabilising cereal prices? Adapting the response to the market

Should cereal prices be stabilised? With the Sahel food crisis of 2005, followed by soaring prices […]

Adoption of Weather Index Insurance: Learning from Willingness to Pay among a Panel of Households in Rural Ethiopia

In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather index insurance markets […]

Managing agricultural price volatility in Africa – Context matters for policy effectiveness

Soaring agricultural prices in 2007/2008, followed by decreasing prices in 2009/2010 then a new surge in […]

Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture: Lessons Learned

This paper discusses Risk Management in African Agriculture, Taking Stock of What Has and Hasn’t Worked. […]

Innovations in Agricultural and Natural Disaster Insurance

Agricultural production has always been a risky endeavor. Farmers constantly have to deal with unfavorable weather […]

Grain Price Volatility and Its Economic Interpretation

The recent volatility of prices of major grains has generated a wide array of economic interpretations […]

Agricultural insurance schemes

Agricultural producers face a series of risks affecting the income and welfare of their households. These […]

Weather Data Grids for Agriculture Risk Management: The Case of Honduras and Guatemala

One of the major constraints for the improvement of agricultural risk management in Central America, and […]

Design and Implementation of Crop Potential Model System Based on GIS and Componentware Technology

Based on SuperMap IS.NET and the empirical models about crop potential output, the paper firstly designed […]