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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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Extreme Measures of Agricultural Financial Risk

The agricultural marketing environment is inherently risky. Having accurate measures of risk helps farmers, policy-makers and […]

How far do shocks move across borders? Examining volatility transmission in major agricultural futures markets

This paper examines the level of interdependence and volatility transmission across major exchanges of maize, wheat, […]

Making the Grade: Smallholder Farmers, Emerging Standards, and Development Assistance Programs in Africa

The report, published by the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, presents the results […]

Developing Index-Based Insurance for Agriculture in Developing Countries

Index-based insurance products for agriculture represent an attractive alternative for managing weather risk. Pilot programs conducted […]

Building Climate Resilience in the Agriculture Sector in Asia and the Pacific

This report presents broad indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity in the region. A review […]

Technical Assistance to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for Developing Agricultural Insurance

The purpose of the TA is to (i) identify impediments to developing sustainable agricultural insurance in […]

Feasibility Study: Which micro-insurance mechanisms are most beneficial to cotton growers in Mali?

This article presents a feasibility study  of a micro-insurance product targeted to cotton producers in Mali. Based […]

Bulgarian Catastrophe Insurance Initiative: Feasibility Study

This report consists of two main Sections and Technical Annexes. Section I first reviews the international […]

The World Bank Group Framework and IFC Strategy for Engagement in the Palm Oil Sector

A focus on increasing the productivity of existing oil palm plantations, when combined with good governance, […]

China: Innovations in Agricultural Insurance (Promoting Access to Agricultural Insurance for Small Farmers)

The report explains why agricultural insurance is expensive to deliver to small farm households. This backdrop […]

Ten Years of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Problems and Prospects

Ten years ago, governments inked the Beijing Platform for Action and committed among other things to “develop […]

Filling stomachs worldwide with agriculture risk transfer solutions

The combination of severe production shortfall, extreme weather conditions and export controls heightens threats of a […]

National Agricultural Insurance Scheme in India

With two-thirds of the population dependent on agriculture for a livelihood, crop insurance is an important element […]

Index Based Agricultural Insurance in Developing Countries: Feasibility, Scalability and Sustainability

This report begins with a brief discussion of risk and, in general terms, the willingness of farm […]

Parametric Insurance: General Market Trends and Perspectives for the African Insurance Sector

The development community has strongly supported several pilot projects with the objective of assessing the feasibility […]

Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Areas in Lower Income Countries

This session focuses on innovations in risk transfer for natural disasters in lower income countries. In […]

Risk management and finance along value chains of Small Island Developing States. Evidence from the Caribbean and the Pacific

The paper analyses agricultural risks and risk management in selected Small Island Developing States which are […]

Insurance Against Covariate Shocks – The Role of Index-Based Insurance in Social Protection in Low-Income Countries of Africa

Uninsured risk has far reaching consequences for rural growth aswell as poverty reduction. A range of […]

Index Based Livestock Insurance Project Mongolia: Additional Financing

The Government of Mongolia requested assistance from the World Bank to improve rural herder vulnerability to […]

Index-Based Rainfall Insurance to Help Plant More Productive Harvests

Objectives:  The project will build the framework for index insurance programs for 900 subsistence farmers across […]