"Goodwin and Mahul identify the key issues and concerns that arise in the design and rating of crop yield insurance plans, with a particular emphasis on production risk modeling. The authors show how the availability of data shapes the insurance scheme and the ratemaking procedures. Relying on...

The aim of this research is to establish a system of protection against loss of grazing land due to adverse weather, under an experimental type of indexed insurance for the sheep farming regions of Maule and Biobio (Chile). For the assessment of the damage impact the Normalized Difference...

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Innovative risk financing and insurance mechanisms are vital...