, the hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance with regard to aggregation biases in the underlying risk … reduction potential for the application of weather index-based insurance in the NCP is discussed in chapter III. Before the … specific objectives of both chapters are listed, weather risk in agriculture is reconsidered and the scope of risk ... …

This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in … with insurance principles, there remain many challenges to its mainstreaming in low income countries. Scaling up of weather … calculated weather index and actual productivity loss on the farm. Various options may be considered to enhance uptake of weather …