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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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Intelligent Design of Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists

Despite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmers and pastoralists have met with […]

Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot

Index-based insurance products represent a promising and exciting innovation for managing the climate related risks that vulnerable […]

Designing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya

This paper describes a novel index-based livestock insurance product now being piloted for pastoralists in the […]

Using Satellite Imagery as the Basis for Index Insurance Contracts in West Africa

Building on previous discussions, this memo discusses the logic of matching technological innovations with financial innovations that insulate […]

Weather and Climate Risks and Uncertainties in RA-IV

This is a presentation that highlights current climate and weather threats to agriculture and management strategies

Agricultural Investment and Productivity

***This book is not yet published*** This book critically examines the reasons behind East Africa’s stagnant […]

Agricultural Risk and the Crop Insurance Market in China

A recent major expansion in the premium volume of the Chinese crop insurance program coupled with […]

Impact of the New Standard Reinsurance Agreement on MPCI Gain and Loss Probabilities

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) offers protection to crop insurers in […]

The Role of Dams in Flood Risk Reduction: The Howard Hanson Dam and the Green River Valley

In January 2009, a heavy rainstorm brought record-high inflow to the Eagle Gorge Reservoir in Washington […]

Setting the New Standard in Modeling Hurricane Risk

As new scientific findings lead to consensus within the scientific community and engineering principles are thoroughly […]

Crop Yield Distributions: A Reconciliation of Previous Research and Statistical Tests for Normality

This study revisits the large but inconclusive body of research on crop yield distributions. Using competing […]

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Climate change poses important challenges for agriculture and food security in Africa. It directly affects food […]

The potential of Carbon crediting for restoring degraded grazing systems

This is a conference presentation from a June 2010 event where climate change negotiators gathered in […]

Building the Base: Scientific Investments to Support Agricultural Mitigation

This is a conference presentation from a June 2010 event where climate change negotiators gathered in […]

Efficiency Costs of Subsidy Rules for Crop Insurance

  Participation in federal crop insurance programs has been encouraged through premium subsidies. The current subsidy […]

Social Protection for Agricultural Growth in Africa

The most effective strategies for reducing poverty are those that raise the economic returns to the […]

International Conference on Agricultural Risk and Food Security 2010

  This is the collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Agricultural Risk and […]

Migratory responses to agricultural risk in Northern Nigeria

This paper investigates the extent to which northern Nigerian households engage in internal migration to insure […]

Volatility in agricultural commodity markets: Towards some policy responses

This presentation details food price spikes and the policy responses to them. The presentation discusses whether […]

FAO National Price Database

The FAO National Price Database facilitates price analysis, using both national and international prices. They have […]