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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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Opportunities and Challenges of Incorporating Climate Change Threats into Disaster Risk Management Planning: A Case Study in Costa Rica

Disaster losses due to climate and weather related events are increasing worldwide. Risk associated with climate […]

Idiosyncratic shocks, risk management and welfare dynamics in rural Ghana

Identifying who moves in and out of poverty over time has been the focus of a […]

Fondos de aseguramiento agropecuario y rural: La experiencia mexicana en el mutualismo agropecuario y sus organizaciones superiores

Rural Resilience Initiative: Innovations in Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction

This presentation by Kimberly Pfeifer (Oxfam America) was part of the Feed The Future CSO Stakeholder […]

Risk management in the context of Feed the Future (Presentation)

This short presentation by Lena Heron (USAID Office of Agriculture) was part of the Feed The […]

Index insurance for aggregate risks – Combining formal and informal insurance (Presentation)

This presentation by Ruth Vargas Hill (International Food Policy Research Institute) was part of the Feed […]

FAO Global Food Price Monitor October 2011

This edition’s highlights include: In Eastern Africa, cereal prices generally fell for the second consecutive month, […]

October 2011 Crops Prospects and Food Situation

The October 2011 Crops Prospects and Food Situation provides an update on commodity price development, regional […]

State of Food Insecurity (SOFI)

While this SOFI doesn’t update the number of hungry people which for 2010 remains at 925 […]

Managing commodity price volatility in Africa

Africa’s exposure to different commodity classes require differentiated strategies to address the problem of commodity price […]

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). […]