Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...

The structure of a typical rainfall insurance is complex; insurance payoffs are based on many parameters such as the rainfall volume, the rainfall distribution (the number of consecutive dry days), the number of days with excess rainfall etc. Such a complex insurance structure is essential to...

In the Federal crop insurance program, the Federal Government prices insurance policies, shares the underwriting risk with private insurers, and allows private insurers to choose their risk share for each policy. This paper finds a strong negative relationship between the underwriting loss rate...

The paper attempts at assessment of usefulness of the index-based insurance of gross margin compared to traditional production insurances. The analysis used FADN data and was limited to the example of winter wheat. The conducted simulations showed that the category of gross margin is...

Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products to protect their livelihoods from catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a tool to improve the quality and affordability of...

The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circum- stances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather-indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen countries, with the goal of...

Securitization of the rainfall risk involves pooling of the rainfall contingent insurance policies to issue financial instruments in the capital markets to transfer the rainfall risk from the insurers to the investors. Low income households, especially in the developing countries like India...

Low income households, especially in the developing countries could suffer losses due to weather related events such as drought, hurricanes, floods etc. Such losses could cast a household into a chronic poverty cycle - a poverty trap from which the household may find it difficult to re-emerge....

The main objective of this paper is to model the losses caused by frost events and use it to price frost insurances. Since the data on frost events are either unavailable or rarely available, we have chosen to obtain a model for frost losses based on temperature by using some fundamental...