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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 […]

Loan Deficiency Payments versus Countercyclical Payments: Do We Need Both for a Price Safety Net?

The United States federal government currently runs two major price support programs in agriculture, the marketing […]

ARPA Subsidies, Unit Choice, and Reform of the U.S. Crop Insurance Program

The Agricultural Risk Protection Act (ARPA) has largely met its objectives of inducing farmers to increase […]

Risk Management Instruments for Water Reallocations

Federal and state governments are searching for programs and/or policies to deal with the risks linked […]

Agricultural Insurance (An Overview)

Price risk (caused by potential volatility in prices) and production risk (resulting from uncertainty about the […]

The International Task Force on Commodity Risk Management in Developing Countries: Activities, Findings and the Way Forward

The objective of the report is to review the set of on-going operations implemented by the […]

On the Premium for Revenue Insurance under Joint Price and Yield Risk

The goal of this paper is to analyze how increased dependence between multiplicative risks affects the […]

MEDROPLAN-. Operational Component for Morocco

This website is the operational plan for the overall coordination of drought management issues in Morocco, […]

Proposing a Risk Management Framework for Value Chain Initiatives

The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide for reducing the risks faced by […]

Crop Insurance Rates and the Laws of Probability

Increased crop insurance subsidies have increased the demand for insurance at coverage levels higher than the […]

Farm-Level Analysis of Risk Management Proposals

This paper analyzes the impacts of two alternative risk management proposals, the Farmers’ Risk Management Act […]

The Safety Net of Farming: An Introduction and Literature Review of Agricultural Insurance and Other Stabilization Policies and Proposals

With the debate on the 1995 Farm Bill, crop insurance and disaster assistance became major topics […]

Risk, Self-Protection, and Ex Ante Economic Value

This document develops three propositions about the ex ante value of reduced risk. If there is […]

Enabling Productive But Asset-Poor Farmers to Succeed: A Risk Financing Framework

This research paper examines how market-based risk financing instruments could enable asset-poor, but productive, farmers exposed […]

Managing Food Price Risk and Instability in an Environment of Market Liberalization

This report studies the food price instability and risk problem in low-income countries and investigates the […]

Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change and the research underlying this report provides detailed estimates […]

Index Insurance, Probabilistic Climate Forecasts, and Production

Index insurance and probabilistic seasonal forecasts are becoming available in developing countries to help farmers manage […]

Pre-Feasibility Analysis: Index-Based Weather Risk Transfer in Mali

This pre-feasibility study was targeted at reviewing the core conditions for developing a weather insurance market […]

Agricultural Insurance in Nicaragua: From Concept to Pilots to Mainstreaming

This briefing paper outlines the case study of Nicaraguan Index-based weather insurance and the previously used […]

Managing Agricultural Production risk: Innovations in Developing Countries

This document presents innovations in agricultural risk management for natural disaster risk, with the focus on […]