ABSTRACT Women’s access to insurance contributes to the mandate of insurance supervisors to maintain a fair, […]
ABSTRACT Climate change increases the need for better insurance solutions that enable farmers to cope with […]
Following the first two successful Live Talks in 2020, the third Live Talk was held on […]
ABSTRACT Agricultural insurance is a valuable strategy to cope with extreme weather risks. Improved satellite observation […]
What is the purpose and focus of an insurance feasibility study? In a nutshell, a feasibility […]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Discussion Paper analyses the impact of livestock insurance schemes on the livelihoods of […]
The InsuResilience Global Partnership in collaboration with FARM-D, organised a webinar on June 3rd 2020 to […]
ABSTRACT This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent […]
ABSTRACT Index insurance is commonly perceived to be complicated and difficult to evaluate. This is one […]
SUMMARY International climate change experts and frameworks recognize that women and men face different climate change […]
Despite advances in the use of remote sensing technology in the field of agriculture, data analysis […]
Consumer-driven demand for meat and dairy products is driving an increase in livestock production and demand […]
This policy briefing is based on Working Paper No. 17. Animal production is predicted to increase […]
The objective of the Agricultural Insurance Pre-feasibility Study is to identify the institutional, operational, technical and […]
This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank, […]
Agricultural insurance can help producers manage their financial exposure to natural hazard shocks and enhance the […]
Objectives: The project will build the framework for index insurance programs for 900 subsistence farmers across […]
This USAID- funded project report is in response to a request from the Minister of Agriculture […]
In the recent past, growing attention has been devoted to the attempt to correctly include considerations […]
Climate change has become a hotter topic than ever before, thanks to the new political leadership […]
This is a feasibility study of a practical method of drought insurance that is self-sustaining and […]
Because of the dimension that the negative impact of climate change on global agricultural production has, […]
Farmers are exposed year round to a variety of risks, both market-related, such as price variations, […]
This PowerPoint presentation from Swiss Re introduces the issues relating to weather risk management in agriculture […]
Governments in developing countries have been increasingly involved in the support of commercial agricultural insurance programs […]
Despite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmers and pastoralists have met with […]
The background and motivation for this presentation are demonstrated in its outline as follows: • Risks […]
In many developing countries and economies in transition, past government interventions in commodity markets have reduced […]
In recent years, weather index insurance has gained significant international attention. Multilateral agencies and donors are […]
After several unsuccessful attempts for the establishment of a sound agricultural insurance systemin Turkey,long-expected agricultural insurance […]
Agriculture and development remain intricately linked in most of the developing world and this paper examines […]
This primer focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circumstances of lower-income […]
A growing literature suggests that in low-income countries, households with few assets can be trapped in […]
This presentation overviews catastrophic risks, natural disasters and the rural poor, as weather disrupts and negatively […]
This presentation details the development of agricultural insurance in Vietnam, beginning with the development of an […]
This paper reviews the agricultural risk situation in Ghana and the way in which index-based insurance […]
This paper considers the potential for securitizing index-based insurance products that transfer weather and natural disaster […]
This is an informative and educational style presentation detailing how various actors pay for catastrophic risks […]
Munich Re has been handling global risks since 1880. Today, it possesses expertise and know-how in […]
This project proposes to develop and evaluate two complementary interventions, which together will allow households to […]
To meet the long-term demand for food, it is necessary to have comprehensive risk management tools […]
This paper examines the impact the role that insurance and other policy tools can play in […]
IFMR Graduate School of Business (formerly Institute for Financial Management & Research) is a leading business […]
The prevalence of natural disasters is not new and farmers, rural institutions and lenders have, over […]
The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic primer on the agricultural insurance, including […]
GlobalAgRisk is a research and development firm with a proven track record in developing and implementing […]
Aon plc is a large global professional services firm that sells a range of financial risk-mitigation […]
AGROASEMEX S.A. is a Mexican government insurance institution whose mission is to protect the patrimony and the […]
Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) assists growers in developing an appropriate risk management plan, and can help […]
This site is a specialized informational and analytical resource featuring a broad array of issues related to agricultural insurance and […]
This homepage of the Risk Management Agency (RMA) at the USDA, is a source of documents […]
Provider of risk management solutions, helps businesses identify their price risk management issues and then create […]
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 […]
The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent riskiness. This study […]
This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered […]
Using 40 years of historical rainfall data, this paper estimates a distribution for payouts on rainfall […]
Overview document of a way forward for FAO with agricultural insurance based on a conference held […]
The paper is an initial attempt to consider the adaptation role of insurance and related risk […]
The report consists of seven chapters, starting with this introduction. Chapter 2 provides a review of […]
This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help […]
The authors review the historical relationship between the work of applied economists, and policymakers, and the […]
The objective of this module is to provide agricultural producers with added knowledge about the sources […]
Price risk (caused by potential volatility in prices) and production risk (resulting from uncertainty about the […]
The objective of the report is to review the set of on-going operations implemented by the […]
The goal of this paper is to analyze how increased dependence between multiplicative risks affects the […]
Increased crop insurance subsidies have increased the demand for insurance at coverage levels higher than the […]
This paper analyzes the impacts of two alternative risk management proposals, the Farmers’ Risk Management Act […]
With the debate on the 1995 Farm Bill, crop insurance and disaster assistance became major topics […]
This document develops three propositions about the ex ante value of reduced risk. If there is […]
This research paper examines how market-based risk financing instruments could enable asset-poor, but productive, farmers exposed […]
Index insurance and probabilistic seasonal forecasts are becoming available in developing countries to help farmers manage […]
This pre-feasibility study was targeted at reviewing the core conditions for developing a weather insurance market […]
This briefing paper outlines the case study of Nicaraguan Index-based weather insurance and the previously used […]
This document presents innovations in agricultural risk management for natural disaster risk, with the focus on […]
The main purpose of this report is to conceptualize an ex-ante risk management framework for weather […]
This is a presentation and overview of disaster risk financing options for governments and of World […]
This report details the need for increased awareness and action of donors and governments regarding agricultural […]
This paper explores empirically the issue of the demand, namely the willingness to pay (WTP), for […]
Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed […]
Government run crop yield insurance scheme, procurement at minimum support prices and calamity relief funds are […]
This paper presents a role for public investments in developing countries targeted at innovation in market-based […]
This article focuses on two technical assistance projects using aggregate index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) to […]
This paper discusses the current food crisis having manifested itself in high prices of most major […]
The applicability of insurance in any given situation is based on consideration of whether it is […]
This document presentsessential concepts and examples of key aspects of market-based price risk management instruments to […]
The main risks Brazilian farmers faced include drought and excessive rainfall, in addition to volatile market […]
Small rural finance entities (RFEs) are simply not capable of pooling and managing correlated risk on […]
This comprehensive research document reviews policy options available to governments in its objective of protecting rural […]
This paper focuses on the potential of index-based weather insurance products contributing to a green revolution […]
A presentation on the capacities in which NGOs can help to advance access to micro-insurance against […]
This overview document provides a perspective on the progress and challenges associated with index-based risk transfer […]
This concept note describes an innovative risk transfer product being introduced by La Positiva (a Peruvian […]