Farming is an activity which is heavily exposed to risk. Farmers have to deal daily with the change of weather, crops … this paper is to analyse the available catastrophic insurance dedicated to the agriculture sector, with particular emphasis … examine the level of awareness of Polish entrepreneurs in the agricultural industry of the impact of weather conditions on the …

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 to its mainstreaming in low income countries. Scaling up of weather …

The purpose of this paper is to examine weather risk management by application of weather derivatives in agriculture … and evaluate the hedging efficiency. Agriculture is a sector highly sensitive to meteorological elements that affect the … yield of many crops. The underlying weather indices depending on temperature, rainfall and wind speed are analysed. Pricing …