ABSTRACT The current resident population in Cape Verde is estimated at 556,000 inhabitants, mostly rural (64%) […]
ABSTRACT Climate change increases the need for better insurance solutions that enable farmers to cope with […]
Niger is a case of living perpetually with risk, thus more emphasis on long-term structural solutions, […]
aWhere, Inc. is a data management company who has created a web based location intelligence platform, […]
The increase in extreme climate events that are expected to accompany climate change will have far-reaching […]
CCAFS carried out household baseline surveys in all its benchmark sites in 2010/2011. This report presents […]
The red-billed quelea bird, Quelea quelea lathamii, sometimes known as the ‘feathered locust’, is a major […]
The brown locust is endemic to the semi-arid regions of South Africa and southern Namibia, posing […]
This paper focuses on weather information, and how information and communications technologies can be used to […]
Human-induced climate change is resulting in less and more erratic rainfall, especially in regions where food […]
The present study investigates the feasibility of wind index-based insurance, using an approach where payouts are […]
This presentation provides an overview of the work of the project “Adapting to Climate Change in […]
Weather risk remains a major challenge to farming in poor countries that face frequent droughts. Recent […]
Climate change will influence yields while sea level rise can inundate producing lands. The research reported […]
No one understands better than farmers do how the weather, especially when it takes a turn […]
Climate change impacts food production systems, particularly in locations with large, vulnerable populations. Elevated greenhouse gases […]
The UN initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM) aims at playing a leading role in […]
The Agriculture Data and Information Services Center (DISC) is part of the NASA Earth Science Division Applied […]
As one of the eight technical commissions of WMO, the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) provides guidance in […]
Remote sensing instruments in Earth orbit provide a rich source of information about current agricultural conditions. Observed over […]
Weather information is, and will continue to be, an important input into management the decisions of many human […]
This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank, […]
This paper reviews the status of weather and climate services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). […]
One of the major constraints for the improvement of agricultural risk management in Central America, and […]
This document is written to inform a broad range of decision makers about progress that is […]
South African smallholder farmers are faced with high yield variability due to weather related perils such […]
As new scientific findings lead to consensus within the scientific community and engineering principles are thoroughly […]
The background and motivation for this presentation are demonstrated in its outline as follows: • Risks […]
Weather index insurance underwrites a weather risk, typically highly correlated with agricultural production losses, as a […]
Agricultural yield and commodity prices are very sensitive to weather patterns such as drought, excessive rain, […]
This primer focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circumstances of lower-income […]
This paper examines the linkage between climate and weather risks and shocks and poverty traps by […]
This is an informative and educational style presentation detailing how various actors pay for catastrophic risks […]
The Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AGM) is hosted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). AGM is designed […]
The recurrent impacts of hydro- meteorological hazards have wreaked havoc on environment, economy and society throughout […]
The objective of this pilot study is two-pronged. First, the study intends to propose a new […]
This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework […]
After a review of World Bank assistance for natural disasters in developing countries, this report recommends […]
This Guide provides a set of tools to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district […]
This presentation details flood modeling, experiences of flood modeling in SE Asia, satellite remote sensing, and […]
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 […]
This paper focuses on private and public mechanisms for managing such covariate risk for natural disasters. […]
North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences scientists and educators are working to […]
This is a component of a collection of several documents/publications by the Rural Finance Learning Center. […]
This is the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) project website that details the specifics and links […]
This website is a valuable education tool for learning about drought. It is important to understand […]
This book is of interest to organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture […]
In light of this renewed interest in and demand for agricultural insurance, this paper first reviews […]
This note explores the relationship between agricultural sector development, weather risk and finance, and examines an […]
This paper discusses the issue of water scarcity, which is a major constraint on rain-fed agriculture. […]
This document investigates prospects for the use of index based weather insurance in Ethiopia for commercial […]
This document highlights the need to foster proactive drought risk reduction strategies and activities to address […]
This pilot achieved its overall objective of demonstrating the feasibility of establishing contingency funding by transferring […]
This presentation is an overview of risk management in agriculture generally and is primarily comprised of […]
The experiences in the development and implementation of drought and water scarcity management plan, in the […]
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 […]
This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China and examples […]
The report consists of seven chapters, starting with this introduction. Chapter 2 provides a review of […]
This presentation is an overview of the operations of the Commodity Risk Management Group (CRMG) of […]
This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help […]
The Indo-Gangetic Region (IGR), situated in the north of India, occupies nearly 20% of the total […]
The authors review the historical relationship between the work of applied economists, and policymakers, and the […]
This note presents a proposal for reform to the system of emergency relief in Ethiopia by […]
This is a policy outline meant to provide an integrated framework for the implementation of hazard […]
The objective of the report is to review the set of on-going operations implemented by the […]
This website is the operational plan for the overall coordination of drought management issues in Morocco, […]
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 paper explores empirically the issue of the demand, namely the willingness to pay (WTP), for […]
An overview of the risk of drought for certain states in India and an overview of […]
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 article focuses on two technical assistance projects using aggregate index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) to […]
The applicability of insurance in any given situation is based on consideration of whether it is […]
A report released periodically as an early warning report for Southern Africa. This issue of the […]
The main risks Brazilian farmers faced include drought and excessive rainfall, in addition to volatile market […]
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 […]