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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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The Safety Net of Farming: An Introduction and Literature Review of Agricultural Insurance and Other Stabilization Policies and Proposals

With the debate on the 1995 Farm Bill, crop insurance and disaster assistance became major topics […]

Risk, Self-Protection, and Ex Ante Economic Value

This document develops three propositions about the ex ante value of reduced risk. If there is […]

Enabling Productive But Asset-Poor Farmers to Succeed: A Risk Financing Framework

This research paper examines how market-based risk financing instruments could enable asset-poor, but productive, farmers exposed […]

Managing Food Price Risk and Instability in an Environment of Market Liberalization

This report studies the food price instability and risk problem in low-income countries and investigates the […]

Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change and the research underlying this report provides detailed estimates […]

Index Insurance, Probabilistic Climate Forecasts, and Production

Index insurance and probabilistic seasonal forecasts are becoming available in developing countries to help farmers manage […]

Pre-Feasibility Analysis: Index-Based Weather Risk Transfer in Mali

This pre-feasibility study was targeted at reviewing the core conditions for developing a weather insurance market […]

Agricultural Insurance in Nicaragua: From Concept to Pilots to Mainstreaming

This briefing paper outlines the case study of Nicaraguan Index-based weather insurance and the previously used […]

Managing Agricultural Production risk: Innovations in Developing Countries

This document presents innovations in agricultural risk management for natural disaster risk, with the focus on […]

Weather-based Insurance in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi

The main purpose of this report is to conceptualize an ex-ante risk management framework for weather […]

An Overview of Disaster Risk Financing Instruments in the World Bank Operations

This is a presentation and overview of disaster risk financing options for governments and of World […]

Assessment of Innovative Approaches for Flood Risk Management and Financing in Agriculture

This report details the need for increased awareness and action of donors and governments regarding agricultural […]

Disaster Risk Management Systems Analysis: A Guide Book

This Guide provides a set of tools to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district […]

Producer Demand and Welfare Benefits of Rainfall Insurance in Tanzania

This paper explores empirically the issue of the demand, namely the willingness to pay (WTP), for […]

Managing Pests and Diseases in Tropical Agriforestry

Pests and diseases are major causes of yield losses in crops around the world, but they […]

Contract Farming Resource Center

Contractual arrangements between buyers and sellers are often acknowledged as a tool to manage market and […]

Drought Management Strategies – 2009

An overview of the risk of drought for certain states in India and an overview of […]

Innovations in Government Responses to Catastrophic Risk Sharing for Agriculture in Developing Countries

Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed […]

Agriculture Insurance in India

Government run crop yield insurance scheme, procurement at minimum support prices and calamity relief funds are […]

Public Investments Targeted Toward Innovation in Risk Transfer

This paper presents a role for public investments in developing countries targeted at innovation in market-based […]