Unlike conventional insurance, which indemnifies policyholders for verifiable production
losses arising from multiple perils, index insurance indemnifies policyholders based on the …

Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of
new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low levels of education …

While agricultural production has always been a risky endeavour, it has become even more
so in the current context of climatic change and increasing market uncertainty. Meanwhile …

Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to
affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the …

There are several factors that influence whether people will want to participate in index
insurance programs. A number of these influence their attractiveness on economic grounds …

Understanding the factors that give rise to greater or lesser adaptive capacity among
households with in a community could allow government interventions to target the right …

Innovative micro-insurance schemes can be one tool to help African small-holder farmers
cope with climate variability and change. A critical challenge for implementing such risk …

In the last decade a growing number of efforts have been made to insure the weather-
related production risks of rural agricultural households in the Global South via …

Background Smallholder farmers in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to
climate shocks but often lack access to agricultural insurance. Weather index insurance (WII) …

We present results of experimental games with smallholder farmers in Tigray, Ethiopia, in
2010, in which participants in the games allocated money across risk management options …