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Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment in Niger: Moving from Crisis Response to Long-Term Risk Management

Niger is a case of living perpetually with risk, thus more emphasis on long-term structural solutions, […]

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aWhere, Inc.

aWhere, Inc. is a data management company who has created a web based location intelligence platform, […]

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The State of Climate Information Services for Agriculture and Food Security in West African Countries

The increase in extreme climate events that are expected to accompany climate change will have far-reaching […]

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Summary of Baseline Household Survey Results: Lower Nyando, Kenya.

CCAFS carried out household baseline surveys in all its benchmark sites in 2010/2011. This report presents […]

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Quelling the Quelea birds

The red-billed quelea bird, Quelea quelea lathamii, sometimes known as the ‘feathered locust’, is a major […]

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Locusts on the move

The brown locust is endemic to the semi-arid regions of South Africa and southern Namibia, posing […]

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Using ICT to Provide Weather Information for Agriculture

This paper focuses on weather information, and how information and communications technologies can be used to […]

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Ecological farming: Drought-resistant agriculture

Human-induced climate change is resulting in less and more erratic rainfall, especially in regions where food […]

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Jamaica: Weather Insurance for the Coffee Sector Feasibility Study

The present study investigates the feasibility of wind index-based insurance, using an approach where payouts are […]

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Adapting to Climate Change in China

This presentation provides an overview of the work of the project “Adapting to Climate Change in […]

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Insuring against the Weather

Weather risk remains a major challenge to farming in poor countries that face frequent droughts. Recent […]

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Climate change, sea level rise and rice: global market implications

Climate change will influence yields while sea level rise can inundate producing lands. The research reported […]

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Can agriculture cope with climate change?

No one understands better than farmers do how the weather, especially when it takes a turn […]

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East African food security as influenced by future climate change and land use change at local to regional scale

Climate change impacts food production systems, particularly in locations with large, vulnerable populations. Elevated greenhouse gases […]

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UN initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management

The UN initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM) aims at playing a leading role in […]

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NASA Agriculture Data and Information Services Center (DISC)

The Agriculture Data and Information Services Center (DISC) is part of the NASA Earth Science Division Applied […]

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World Meteorological Organization Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM)

As one of the eight technical commissions of WMO, the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) provides guidance in […]

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HARVIST: A System for Agricultural and Weather Studies Using Advanced Statistical Methods

Remote sensing instruments in Earth orbit provide a rich source of information about current agricultural conditions. Observed over […]

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Valuing Weather Information in Irrigated Agriculture

Weather information is, and will continue to be, an important input into management the decisions of many human […]

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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture: Guidance for Development Practitioners

This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank, […]

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Weather and Climate Services in Europe and Central Asia A Regional Review

This paper reviews the status of weather and climate services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). […]

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Weather Data Grids for Agriculture Risk Management: The Case of Honduras and Guatemala

One of the major constraints for the improvement of agricultural risk management in Central America, and […]

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Managing Agricultural Production Risk: Innovations in Developing Countries

This document is written to inform a broad range of decision makers about progress that is […]

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Weather Index Insurance: The Case for South Africa

South African smallholder farmers are faced with high yield variability due to weather related perils such […]

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Setting the New Standard in Modeling Hurricane Risk

As new scientific findings lead to consensus within the scientific community and engineering principles are thoroughly […]

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Agricultural Commodity Risk Management: Policy Options and Practical Instruments with Emphasis on the Tea Economy

The background and motivation for this presentation are demonstrated in its outline as follows: • Risks […]

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Weather Index Insurance for Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries

Weather index insurance underwrites a weather risk, typically highly correlated with agricultural production losses, as a […]

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Critical Success Factors for Weather Risk Transfer Solutions in the Agricultural Sector: A Reinsurers View

Agricultural yield and commodity prices are very sensitive to weather patterns such as drought, excessive rain, […]

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Index Insurance for Weather Risk in Lower Income Countries

This primer focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circumstances of lower-income […]

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Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing

This paper examines the linkage between climate and weather risks and shocks and poverty traps by […]

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Emerging Lessons from Innovation in Catastrophic Weather Insurance to Improve the Livelihoods of Rural Households

This is an informative and educational style presentation detailing how various actors pay for catastrophic risks […]

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Agricultural Meteorology Programme

The Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AGM) is hosted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). AGM is designed […]

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Assistance to Improve Local Agricultural Emergency Preparedness in Caribbean Countries Highly Prone to Hurricane Related Disasters

The recurrent impacts of hydro- meteorological hazards have wreaked havoc on environment, economy and society throughout […]

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Preparing to Manage Natural Hazards and Climate Change Risks in Dakar, Senegal

The objective of this pilot study is two-pronged. First, the study intends to propose a new […]

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Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework

This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework […]

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Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters

After a review of World Bank assistance for natural disasters in developing countries, this report recommends […]

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Disaster Risk Management Systems Analysis: A Guide Book

This Guide provides a set of tools to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district […]

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Flood Modelling for Agricultural Risk Management and Insurance

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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Weather and Fire

North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences scientists and educators are working to […]

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Risk and Insurance

This is a component of a collection of several documents/publications by the Rural Finance Learning Center. […]

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The Frontier Project on Drought Resistance in Rice

This is the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) project website that details the specifics and links […]

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Drought Facts

This website is a valuable education tool for learning about drought. It is important to understand […]

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Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture

This book is of interest to organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture […]

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Innovative Agricultural Insurance Products and Schemes

In light of this renewed interest in and demand for agricultural insurance, this paper first reviews […]

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Mitigating Weather Risk

This note explores the relationship between agricultural sector development, weather risk and finance, and examines an […]

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Drought Resistant Soils: Optimization of Soil Moisture for Sustainable Plant Production

This paper discusses the issue of water scarcity, which is a major constraint on rain-fed agriculture. […]

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Weather Risk Management: An Ethiopian Pilot

This document investigates prospects for the use of index based weather insurance in Ethiopia for commercial […]

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Drought Risk Reduction Framework and Practices

This document highlights the need to foster proactive drought risk reduction strategies and activities to address […]

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Final Report on the Ethiopia Drought Insurance Pilot Project

This pilot achieved its overall objective of demonstrating the feasibility of establishing contingency funding by transferring […]

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Lessons from Piloting Weather Index Insurance

This presentation is an overview of risk management in agriculture generally and is primarily comprised of […]

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Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems: Drought Management and Policy Development in the Mediterranean

The experiences in the development and implementation of drought and water scarcity management plan, in the […]

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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption: field experimental evidence from Malawi

The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent riskiness. This study […]

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Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India

This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered […]

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Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Insurance Payouts in Southern India

Using 40 years of historical rainfall data, this paper estimates a distribution for payouts on rainfall […]

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Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance in Western China

This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China and examples […]

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Agricultural Insurance Feasibility Study for Nepal

The report consists of seven chapters, starting with this introduction. Chapter 2 provides a review of […]

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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture

This presentation is an overview of the operations of the Commodity Risk Management Group (CRMG) of […]

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A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas – case study Nicaragua

This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help […]

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Drought Assessment Using SPI, Remote Sensing and Technology

The Indo-Gangetic Region (IGR), situated in the north of India, occupies nearly 20% of the total […]

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Agricultural Markets and Risks – Management of the Latter, Not the Former, Volume 1

The authors review the historical relationship between the work of applied economists, and policymakers, and the […]

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Ethiopia: Integrated Risk Financing To Protect Livelihoods and Foster Development

This note presents a proposal for reform to the system of emergency relief in Ethiopia by […]

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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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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 […]

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MEDROPLAN-. Operational Component for Morocco

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Managing Agricultural Production risk: Innovations in Developing Countries

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

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Weather-based Insurance in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi

The main purpose of this report is to conceptualize an ex-ante risk management framework for weather […]

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Producer Demand and Welfare Benefits of Rainfall Insurance in Tanzania

This paper explores empirically the issue of the demand, namely the willingness to pay (WTP), for […]

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Drought Management Strategies – 2009

An overview of the risk of drought for certain states in India and an overview of […]

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Innovations in Government Responses to Catastrophic Risk Sharing for Agriculture in Developing Countries

Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed […]

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Agriculture Insurance in India

Government run crop yield insurance scheme, procurement at minimum support prices and calamity relief funds are […]

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Using Index-based Risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Micro Lending in Peru and Vietnam

This article focuses on two technical assistance projects using aggregate index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) to […]

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Insurance of Crops in Developing Countries

The applicability of insurance in any given situation is based on consideration of whether it is […]

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Southern Africa Food Security Outlook January to June 2010

A report released periodically as an early warning report for Southern Africa. This issue of the […]

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Betting the Farm? Agricultural Risks in Brazil

The main risks Brazilian farmers faced include drought and excessive rainfall, in addition to volatile market […]

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Insuring Against Bad Weather: Recent Thinking

This comprehensive research document reviews policy options available to governments in its objective of protecting rural […]

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The Potential of Weather Index Insurance for Spurring a Green Revolution in Africa

This paper focuses on the potential of index-based weather insurance products contributing to a green revolution […]

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Using NGOs to Advance Microinsurance for Weather Risks Among the Rural Poor

A presentation on the capacities in which NGOs can help to advance access to micro-insurance against […]

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Challenges for Use of Index-Based Weather Insurance in Lower-Income Countries

This overview document provides a perspective on the progress and challenges associated with index-based risk transfer […]

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