The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods

By P. Hazell, J. Anderson, N. Balzer, A. H. Clemmensen, U. Hess, F. Rispoli. 2010

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Is There Too Much Hype about Index-based Agricultural Insurance? (2012, background): “Many of the pilots improve this strategy, (for example, the Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme of the Agricultural Insurance Company in India, described in Hazell et al., 2010).”
Financial instruments for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation (2015, background): “weather index insurance programs, including 28 addressing individual farmer/herder, slum dweller, village or cooperative risk (Hazell et al. 2010).”
Climate-Resilient Pathways: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development (2014, background): “Advances in mobile technologies in developing countries, for example, have increased the accessibility of farmers to critical information such as disease surveillance, information related to agricultural inputs, and market prices for crops (Hazell et al., 2010; Juma, 2011).”
Agricultural Index Insurance for Development (2017, background): “Index insurance is promoted as a low-cost alternative for conventional insurance products (Alderman and Haque 2007; Barnett, Barrett, and Skees 2008; Hazell et al. 2010; Mahul and Stutley 2010).”
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India (2010, unknown): “The product we study has inspired microfinance and development agencies around the world, and there are currently at least 36 pilot projects introducing index insurance in developing countries (Hazell et al., 2010).”
Applicability Of The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index In Index-Based Crop Insurance Design (2012, unknown): “Increasingly, satellite information, in particular the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is being promoted as a method of overcoming these weather information deficiencies (Ceccato et al. 2009, Hazell et al. 2010).”