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The potential for scale and sustainability in weather index insurance for agriculture and rural livelihoods [1]

Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as drought or floods can have a devastating impact on food security as well as the social and economic development of rural households. In recent years, an increasing number of initiatives have tested weather index-based insurance to help manage these risks in agriculture. Building on the experience of the IFAD-WFP Weather Risk Management Facility (WRMF) and the analysis of 37 index insurance programmes around the world, this paper identifies eight key principles to help weather index-based insurance reach scale and sustainability. It also includes nine case studies on index insurance programmes and outlines how donors and governments can support the sector.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2010
& et al [2], P. Hazell [3], J. Anderson [4], N. Balzer [5]
IFAD [6]
Tags:
Agriculture [7], PepsiCo [8], Contract Farming [9], Natural Disasters [10], Extreme Weather Events [11], Insurance [12], Disaster Management [13], Rural Development [14], India [15], Rome [16], Developing Countries [17], & et al [2], IFAD [6], P. Hazell [3], J. Anderson [4], N. Balzer [5], Climate Change [18]

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