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Index Insurance for Managing Climate-Related Agricultural Risk: Toward a Strategic Research Agenda

In October 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the […]
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Index Based Crop Insurance Product Design and Ratemaking

Designing and rating insurance products requires both science and judgment. In developing and emerging economies, actuarial […]
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USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Capacity Building and Drought Analysis

This presentation was made at the “Using Satellites for Better Water and Environment Management?” training event […]
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NASA Applied Remote Sensing Education and Training – Water Resources Management

The goal of this NASA Applied Remote Sensing Education and Training project is to increase the […]
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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, […]
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Dealing with Climatic Risk in Agricultural Research: A Case Study Modelling Maize in Semi-arid Kenya

Rainfall variability is a dominant feature of crop production in semi-arid regions. Soil fertility is also a […]
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Achieving food security in the face of climate change: Summary for policy makers from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has reviewed the scientific evidence to identify a […]
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Index insurance for aggregate risks – Combining formal and informal insurance (Presentation)

This presentation by Ruth Vargas Hill (International Food Policy Research Institute) was part of the Feed […]
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Weather Risk Management for Agriculture and Agri-Business in Developing Countries

Risk is a pervasive characteristic of life in developing countries, especially in rural areas. The economies […]
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Innovations in Insurance for Weather-Related Losses: Index Insurance

The rural poor, economically dependent on agricultural production, face significant risks to their livelihoods from catastrophic […]
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Weather and agri-risk solutions for emerging markets

This PowerPoint presentation from Swiss Re introduces the issues relating to weather risk management in agriculture […]
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GlobalAgRisk

GlobalAgRisk is a research and development firm with a proven track record in developing and implementing […]
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Grenada National Hazard Mitigation Policy

This is a policy outline meant to provide an integrated framework for the implementation of hazard […]
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ENSO Business Interruption Index Insurance for Catastrophic Flooding in Piura, Peru

This concept note describes an innovative risk transfer product being introduced by La Positiva (a Peruvian […]