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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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An evaluation of RS data to identify Citrus and Potato in Argentina

For Tucumán province in Argentina, citrus crops have great economic and social importance. Tucumán is the […]

The Application of Geospatial and Disaster Information for Food Insecurity and Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Assessment by the FAO GIEWS and Asia FIVIMS

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has operationally been utilising low-resolution satellite […]

Geospatial Decision Support for Drought Risk Management

Drought affects virtually all regions of the world and results in significant economic, social, and environmental […]

Weather based crop insurance in India

The weather index insurance market in India is the world’s largest, having transitioned from small-scale and […]

East African food security as influenced by future climate change and land use change at local to regional scale

Climate change impacts food production systems, particularly in locations with large, vulnerable populations. Elevated greenhouse gases […]

Food Early Solutions for Africa (FESA): Micro-insurance methodology, validation, contract design

This document is prepared in the framework of Millennium project no 38: FESA Micro-Insurance, a project […]

FAS/OGA/IPAD Introduction & Geospatial Data Applied to Global Agriculture Monitoring

This presentation reviews the activities of the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (USA), the Office of Global […]

Climate Risk Management in Africa: Learning from Practice

Most of the sectors on which development efforts focus are climate-sensitive, including agriculture, health, energy, transport, […]

Designing Index-Based Weather Insurance for Farmers in AdiHa, Ethiopia

This report documents the process and results of the index insurance design effort leading to the […]

Price and Supply Risks in Agricultural Markets

This presentation was made on 21 February 2012 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The topic of […]

Supplemental irrigation for dry-spell mitigation of rain-fed agriculture in the Sahel

Unreliable and erratic rainfall combined with inherent low soil fertility in crust prone soils affect crop […]

Chapter 4: Major impacts of irrigation and drainage projects

In the detailed sections below, many of the impacts described are most extreme in the case […]

Food Price Watch | January 2012

Global food prices declined 8% between September and December 2011. Wheat, maize, and rice prices declined […]

Potential Global Crop Pest Distributions Using CLIMEX: Harvest Choice Applications

HarvestChoice provides data, information and tools to support strategic investment decisions in agriculture. Most agriculture processes […]

Globally Gridded Satellite Observations for Climate Studies

With the recent passing of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. weather satellite, questions on how to […]

Disaster Risk Management Programs for Priority Countries

At its 5th meeting in Copenhagen in November 2008, the GFDRR Consultative Group asked the Secretariat […]

Towards a Strategy for Financial Weather Risk Management

This report forms part of the technical assistance provided by the World Bank under the Non-lending […]

Review of changes in domestic cereal prices during the global price spikes

AMIS aims at improving the collection of statistics on various aspects of the national food economy and […]

Livelihood Security Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel

Aimed at supporting policy and decision-makers in the Member States of the region, adaptation and peacebuilding practitioners worldwide, […]

Catastrophic Drought Insurance based on the Remotely Sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe

Index insurance, which indemnifies agricultural producers based on an objectively observable variable that is highly correlated with […]