Despite advances in the use of remote sensing technology in the field of agriculture, data analysis […]
The present study investigates the feasibility of wind index-based insurance, using an approach where payouts are […]
The recurrent drought has had devastating effects on pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Kenya. Marsabit County located […]
The Ghana Agricultural Insurance Programme (GAIP) was launched in 2011. It has developed the first agricultural […]
The 2011 agricultural season marked the expansion of HARITA to 13,195 households in 43 villages,1 reaching […]
In October 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the […]
This document is prepared in the framework of Millennium project no 38: FESA Micro-Insurance, a project […]
Index insurance, which indemnifies agricultural producers based on an objectively observable variable that is highly correlated with […]
This research considers the following question: how can generic weather index products be disigned and combined […]
Agriculture is the dominant sector in the Ethiopian economy where 83% of the population fully depends […]
More than 3 million households in northern Kenya’s arid and semi arid lands depend primarily on […]
This chapter introduces and reviews WFP’s weather index-based insurance pilot schemes at both the macro and […]
Index-based insurance products for agriculture represent an attractive alternative for managing weather risk. Pilot programs conducted […]
Uninsured risk has far reaching consequences for rural growth aswell as poverty reduction. A range of […]
The Government of Mongolia requested assistance from the World Bank to improve rural herder vulnerability to […]
This paper reviews the agricultural risk situation in Ghana and the way in which index-based insurance […]
Using the example of Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica, this study analyzes the feasibility of index […]
This note explores the relationship between agricultural sector development, weather risk and finance, and examines an […]
This document investigates prospects for the use of index based weather insurance in Ethiopia for commercial […]
This pre-feasibility study was targeted at reviewing the core conditions for developing a weather insurance market […]
This concept note describes an innovative risk transfer product being introduced by La Positiva (a Peruvian […]