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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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International grain reserves and other instruments to address volatility in grain markets

In the long view, recent grain price volatility is not anomalous. Wheat, rice, and maize are […]

The Economics of Grain Price Volatility

Recent volatility of prices of major grains has generated a wide array of analyses and policy […]

DRAFT: Index Based Compensation for Weather Risk in the Italian Agriculture. A Feasibility Study Based on Actual Historic Data

The paper explores the feasibility of the use of weather index based derivatives for farms’ risk […]

Speculation in food commodity markets

Numerous explanations have been given for the food price crisis. Soil quality is deteriorating, water is […]

Placing the 2006/08 Commodity Price Boom into Perspective

The 2006-08 commodity price boom was one of the longest and broadest of the post-World War […]

Index Investment and Financialization of Commodities

This paper finds that concurrent with the rapid growing index investment in commodities markets since early […]

Market Power, Price Formation and Primary Commodities

This paper argues that the bias of conventional economics needs to be replaced with a more […]

Risk and Vulnerability Considerations in Poverty Analysis : Recent Advances and Future Directions

In the recent past, growing attention has been devoted to the attempt to correctly include considerations […]

Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Price Discovery and Volatility Dynamics in Emerging Markets

This study characterizes volatility dynamics in external emerging bond markets and examines how prices and volatility […]

Where are Food Prices Heading

Food prices are reaching record highs, which raises concerns about spending capacity, hunger, political turmoil and […]

Climate change risks for African agriculture

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of major risks for African agriculture and food […]

Grain import dependency in the MENA region: risk management options

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is the largest grain importing region in the […]

Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era: An Examination of the Linkage Between Energy and Agricultural Markets

Agricultural and energy commodity prices have traditionally exhibited relatively low correlation. However, recent increases in biofuel […]

Managing Risk in Agriculture: a Holistic Approach

The sources of risk in agriculture are numerous and diverse. These range from events related to climate […]

Farm Level Analysis of Risk and Risk Management Strategies and Policies Cross Country Analysis

This Working Paper presents the work on farm level analysis of risk management environment, strategies and […]

From Risk to Opportunity 2008: Insurer Responses to Climate Change

Climate change has become a hotter topic than ever before, thanks to the new political leadership […]

Food Commodities Speculation and Food Price Crisis

In this briefing note, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food examines the impact […]

Reflections on the Global Food Crisis

This review of the 2007–08 food crisis attempts to provide a balanced and comprehensive assessment of […]

Has food price volatility risen?

The high food prices experienced over recent years have led to the widespread view that food […]

Development Dimensions of High Food Prices

International agricultural commodity prices rose dramatically from the summer of 2006 through mid-2008. Then they fell […]