The aim of this review is firstly to assess the impact that FSD and partners have […]
Designing and rating insurance products requires both science and judgment. In developing and emerging economies, actuarial […]
This presentation details some basic information about index insurance, followed by a review of the Mexico […]
IBLI, designed by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in partnership with Cornell University and the […]
Within the international reinsurance market, PartnerRe has pioneered initiatives to engage in local market development efforts […]
This presentation details a case study of the work done on agricultural insurance in Nicaragua, discussing: […]
This case study is organized as follows. First, how index insurance works and why there is […]
This presentation by Ruth Vargas Hill (International Food Policy Research Institute) was part of the Feed […]
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 presentation reviews a basic primer on index insurance, including what it is and its advantages and challenges, before […]
This chapter introduces and reviews WFP’s weather index-based insurance pilot schemes at both the macro and […]
Index-based financial risk-transfer mechanisms (referred to as index insurance in the rest of the paper) are […]
In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather index insurance markets […]
This paper discusses Risk Management in African Agriculture, Taking Stock of What Has and Hasn’t Worked. […]
Index-based insurance products for agriculture represent an attractive alternative for managing weather risk. Pilot programs conducted […]
The purpose of the TA is to (i) identify impediments to developing sustainable agricultural insurance in […]
This article presents a feasibility study of a micro-insurance product targeted to cotton producers in Mali. Based […]
This report consists of two main Sections and Technical Annexes. Section I first reviews the international […]
The report explains why agricultural insurance is expensive to deliver to small farm households. This backdrop […]
With two-thirds of the population dependent on agriculture for a livelihood, crop insurance is an important element […]
This report begins with a brief discussion of risk and, in general terms, the willingness of farm […]
The development community has strongly supported several pilot projects with the objective of assessing the feasibility […]
In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rain-fed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, […]
The Commodity Risk Management Group (CRMG) of the World Bank has developed a prototype Malawi Maize […]
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate event associated with warming sea surface temperatures […]
THE HUNGER SAFETY NET PROGRAM (HSNP), sponsored by the Government of Kenya and the United Kingdom’s Department for […]
Index-based insurance products represent a promising and exciting innovation for managing the climate related risks that vulnerable […]
This paper describes a novel index-based livestock insurance product now being piloted for pastoralists in the […]
Building on previous discussions, this memo discusses the logic of matching technological innovations with financial innovations that insulate […]
Crop insurance based on a weather index is a feasible product for Ukraine. Such insurance could […]
Weather index insurance underwrites a weather risk, typically highly correlated with agricultural production losses, as a […]
In recent years the World Bank has engaged in several pilot programs to assess the feasibility […]
Agriculture and development remain intricately linked in most of the developing world and this paper examines […]
The I4 Index Insurance Innovation Initiative is a response to the evidence that uninsured risk can […]
This presentation overviews the work by the World Bank’s Agricultural Risk Management team in index-based weather […]
Rainfall index insurance provides a payout based on measured local rainfall during key phases of the […]
This GlobalAgRisk Market Development Model handbook offers a conceptual framework to guide policy makers and stakeholders […]
Ukraine has good quality weather and crop yield data that is sufficient for design of weather […]
This brochure details the operations of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World […]
Recent innovations in energy markets suggest the possibility of addressing agricultural risk factors by issuing derivatives […]
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product, which has been introduced in recent years in countries […]
This presentation is an overview of risk management in agriculture generally and is primarily comprised of […]
This issue of Climate and Society examines the use of index insurance to help reduce vulnerability […]
This report studies the food price instability and risk problem in low-income countries and investigates the […]
Index insurance and probabilistic seasonal forecasts are becoming available in developing countries to help farmers manage […]
This document presents innovations in agricultural risk management for natural disaster risk, with the focus on […]