Tadesse, Million A.; Shiferaw, Bekele A.; Erenstein, Olaf - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 3 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in smallholder agriculture, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its promise to integrate local agricultural risk smoothing with insurance principles, there remain many challenges...