Weather-based Insurance in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi

By U. Hess, J. Syroka. 2005

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Drought insurance for agricultural development and food security in dryland areas (2010, unknown): “DFID paid the insurance premium (Hess and Syroka 2005; Syroka and Nucifora 2010).”
Adaptation and the poor: development, resilience and transition (2008, background): “Conventional insurance schemes for crops have been tested in many countries but have failed (Hess and Syroka, 2005).”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “It also makes the insurance instrument accessible to the broader rural population (Skees, et al., 2002; Hess and Syroka, 2005).”
Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges (2013, background): “5% of the premium over the actuarial rate and a final premium rate of 11% (Hess and Syroka, 2005).”
Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products (2008, unknown): “(d) Pre-financing safety nets and disaster assistance IBRTPs can also be used to pre-finance safety net or disaster assistance programs (Alderman & Haque, 2006; Hess et al., 2005; Hess & Syroka, 2005).”
Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate (2007, background): “…reduces some of the problems associated with traditional insurance, and has begun to make insurance more accessible to smallholder farmers in developing countries (World Bank, 2005; Hess and Syroka, 2005; McCarthy, 2003; Skees and Enkh-Amgalan, 2002; Skees and Leiva, 2005; Varangis et al., 2001).”
Economic Value of Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Agriculture: Review of Ex-Ante Assessments and Recommendations for Future Research (2008, background): “Hoogenboom (2000) classifies the uses of crop simulation models into (i) strategic applications, where models are run to compare crop management scenarios as decision support systems; (ii) tactical applications, where the runs are made using current weather conditions to help producers make manageme”
Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing (2007, methodology): “An alternative approach is to derive a simple combination of rainfall totals during key crop growth stages, and calibrating it to WRSI simulations or historical yield data (Bown et al., 2000, Hess and Syroka 2005, McCarthy 2003, Skees and Leiva 2005, Varangis et al., 2001).”
Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries (2009, unknown): “43 Hess and Syroka (2005).”