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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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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 […]

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 […]