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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture : Guidance for Development Practitioners
World Bank - 2011
managers and development professionals, who are not insurance sector specialists, to weather index insurance. Ultimately, the … paper seeks to take the reader through the main decision points that would lead to a decision to embark upon a weather index …
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Jamaica : Toward a Strategy for Financial Weather Risk Management in Agriculture
World Bank - 2013
strategy for addressing the financial weather risks facing the agricultural sector of Jamaica. As such, it identifies the … various options from current available financial risk transfer instruments for addressing crop weather risks for small farmers … weather risk management; fourth section contains the elements of public policy and investments to support market development …
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Investing in pastoralism : sustainable natural resource use in arid Africa and the Middle East
Pratt, David John - 1997
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Integrating the Indigenous Knowledge of Borana Pastoralists into Rangeland Management Strategies in Southern Ethiopia
World Bank - 2012
Pastoralists' indigenous knowledge (IK) about ecology and social organization led to rangeland-management strategies appropriate to deal with the erratic rainfall in African drylands. Herd mobility was traditionally practiced as the key strategy to make use of the scattered rangeland resources...
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Crop insurance in Karnataka
Kalavakonda, Vijay - 2005
"The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the second driest state in the country. Their analysis highlights weaknesses in product design, implementation challenges, and operational problems. The authors' finding is that the crop...
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Risk modeling concepts relating to the design and rating of agricultural insurance contracts
Goodwin, Barry K. - 2004
"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...
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Enhancing Crop Insurance in India
World Bank - 2012
The broad structure of Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (mNAIS), the main crop insurance program in India, is technically sound and appropriate in the context of India. The NAIS is based on an indexed approach, where average crop yield of an insurance unit, or IU, (i.e., block) is...
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India - Crop Insurance Non-Lending Technical Assistance : Summary of Policy Suggestions
World Bank - 2012
design and ratemaking of new weather index insurance products under the weather based crop insurance scheme; and to perform a …
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Agricultural Insurance in Latin America : Developing the Market
World Bank - 2012
The study focuses on how agricultural insurance can complement and enhance agricultural risk management in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). The overall objective of this study is to provide the key elements for a strategy to increase the penetration of agricultural insurance in the region. The...
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China : Innovations in Agricultural Insurance
World Bank - 2013
This report explains why agricultural insurance is expensive to deliver to small farm households, details risk assessment in four provinces, and recommends China put more resources in developing products that are more suited to an agricultural economy that is dominated by small farm households....
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