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Gridded Analysis of Meteorological Variables for Guatemala and Honduras

This project is part of the “Support to the Development of the Agricultural Insurance Market in […]

Flood Modelling for Agricultural Risk Management and Insurance

This presentation details flood modeling, experiences of flood modeling in SE Asia, satellite remote sensing, and […]

Local Risk Management: Protecting Household Asset Building and Farm Productivity from Idiosyncratic Shocks

There have been considerable recent efforts to improve risk management by using index-based risk transfer products […]

Flood Risk Assessment: A Methodological Framework

The concepts of hazard, vulnerability and risk have been extensively used in various disciplines with a […]

Insuring the Never before Insured: Explaining Index Insurance through Financial Education Games

The costs of uninsured risks for low-wealth agricultural and pastoral households are well documented. Risk makes people poor when […]

Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance: Northern Kenya’s HSNP+

This briefing note details how insurance can be a good augmenting tool for poverty alleviation as […]

Microinsurance: A Case Study of the Indian Rainfall Index Insurance Market

Rainfall index insurance provides a payout based on measured local rainfall during key phases of the […]

Microinsurance: Extending Pro-Poor Risk Management through the Social Fund Platform

Microinsurance can be an effective complement to existing menus of social protection programs. A flexible and […]

Ex Ante Financing for Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation

This is a slide presentation that details ex ante risk financing for weather-related (including El Nino, […]

Index-Based Compensation for Weather Risk in the Italian Agriculture: A Feasibility Study Based on Historical Data

The paper explores the feasibility of the use of weather index based derivatives for farms’ risk […]

Designing Agricultural Index Insurance in Developing Countries: A Global AgRisk Market Development Model Handbook for Policy and Decision Makers

This GlobalAgRisk Market Development Model handbook offers a conceptual framework to guide policy makers and stakeholders […]

Introduction of Weather Index Insurance in Ukraine – Obstacles and Opportunities

Ukraine has good quality weather and crop yield data that is sufficient for design of weather […]

Structural Change in Turkish Agricultural Insurance Policy and Recent Developments

Climate changes or global warming and related environmental effects have increased the importance of risk sharing […]

Agricultural Risk Management in Europe

This paper is based on a study performed by the IPSC-Agrifish unit of Joint Research Centre […]

Case Studies on the Use of Crop Insurance in Managing Risk

Managing the risk associated with farming is challenging. Fortunately, farmers have a variety of risk management […]

Creating Pathways Out of Poverty in Rural Areas: Managing Weather Risk with Index Insurance

This brochure details the operations of  the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World […]

Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean

The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic primer on the agricultural insurance, including […]

Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?

This paper focuses on private and public mechanisms for managing such covariate risk for natural disasters. […]

Climate Derivatives – the Potential for Australian Agribusinesses

This presentation details climate risk management through climate indices because in the view of the author’s, […]

Design and Use of Weather Derivatives in Ag Policies: The Case of Rainfall Index Insurance in Morocco

Recent innovations in energy markets suggest the possibility of addressing agricultural risk factors by issuing derivatives […]