Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather … uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …

financial protection from climate risk via catastrophic weather risk transfer tools. Done well, a weather index insurance (WII … level data on past agricultural productivity and weather conditions, we present an algorithm that generates an effective and …

historical weather data to design and validate solutions using technologies such as remote sensing. Therefore, many projects are …

challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather-indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been …

The recent emergence of weather index insurance offers a promising new risk management tool for African smallholder … of agricultural weather index insurance. The greatest challenges remain the construction of weather indices with low …

The weather index insurance market in India is the world's largest, having transitioned from small-scale and scattered … pilots to a large-scale weather based crop insurance program covering more than 9 million farmers. This paper provides a … lower basis risk. In addition to pure weather indexed products, hybrid products that combine both area yield and weather …

forecasting model that integrates weather variables and crop production information from different geographically correlated …,238 farms from 1996 to 2011. As well, corresponding weather data from 30 stations, including daily temperature and precipitation … weather risk management strategies to help manage adverse weather events.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to integrate …