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The Farmer’s Perspective: Climate Risk and Risk Management in Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Sector

STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE: Gender-lens investing in climate and disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions

The Differential Risk Transfer: a new approach for reducing vulnerability to climate-related hazards
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Food Commodities Speculation and Food Price Crisis

In this briefing note, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food examines the impact […]

Reflections on the Global Food Crisis

This review of the 2007–08 food crisis attempts to provide a balanced and comprehensive assessment of […]

Has food price volatility risen?

The high food prices experienced over recent years have led to the widespread view that food […]

Development Dimensions of High Food Prices

International agricultural commodity prices rose dramatically from the summer of 2006 through mid-2008. Then they fell […]

Recent Global Food Price Shocks: Causes, Consequences and Lessons for African Governments and Donors

Dramatic increases in international agricultural commodity prices began in 2006 and peaked in July, 2008. An […]

Index Insurance for Climate Risk Management & Poverty Reduction: Topics for Discussion

Prepared for a policy roundtable, hosted by  Swiss Re and The International Research Institute  for Climate […]

A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas

This is a feasibility study of a practical method of drought insurance that is self-sustaining and […]

Insurance in emerging markets: sound development; greenfield for agricultural insurance

Emerging market economies continued to deliver strong growth in 2005 despite generally rising global interest rates […]

Price Volatility in Agricultural Markets

Recent bouts of extreme price volatility in global agricultural markets portend rising and more frequent threats […]

Rethinking rural and agricultural finance – The African case

The Green Revolution has so far bypassed sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, in order to feed the […]

Agricultural insurances as part of a risk management strategy

Because of the dimension that the negative impact of climate change on global agricultural production has, […]

An analysis about scattering agricultural risk of farmers based on contract farming

Contract farming connects an enterprise and farmers into one system, it will scatter agricultural risk which […]

Study on Risk Management of Peasant Household in Agricultural Industrial Production

The implementation of agriculture industrial production can reduce the part of market risk but not eliminate […]

Uncertainty, risk aversion, and risk management for agricultural producers

Uncertainty and risk are quintessential features of agricultural production. After a brief overview of the main […]

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 […]

Global Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia: An Adaptation and Mitigation Framework

South Asia is home to nearly 22% of the world’s population, including 40% of the world’s […]

Featured Publication | Purpose and potential for commodity exchanges in African economies

Growing interest in commodity exchanges on the part of governments, donors, and the private sector in […]

An econometric investigation of impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon and yield risk

The authors investigate the impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon stocks and also […]

Do wheat futures returns exhibit long-range dependence?

The efficient market hypothesis, where asset prices follow a random walk and incorporate all relevant information, […]

Cropland use, yields, and droughts: spatial data modeling for Burkina Faso and Niger

For countries with recurrent droughts, the design of drought impact mitigation measures could benefit from analyses […]