Index insurance benefits agricultural producers exposed to excessive rainfall risk

Contributions of Agricultural Systems Modeling to Weather Index Insurance

Climate exerts a profound influence on the lives of rural populations, particularly the rural poor, who depend on agriculture for livelihood and sustenance, who are unprotected against climate-related diseases, who lack secure access to water and food, and who are vulnerable to hydrometeorological hazard. Climate shocks such as drought and flooding lead not only to loss of life, but also long-t...

The Use of Remotely Sensed Rainfall for Managing Drought Risk: A Case Study of Weather Index Insurance in Zambia

Remotely sensed rainfall is increasingly being used to manage climate-related risk in gauge sparse regions. Applications based on such data must make maximal use of the skill of the methodology in order to avoid doing harm by providing misleading information. This is especially challenging in regions, such as Africa, which lack gauge data for validation. In this study, we show how calibrated en...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: risk factors for life and living benefits insurance.

BACKGROUND The clinical course of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is highly variable. Patients may remain asymptomatic throughout life, develop progressive and ultimately fatal heart failure, or die prematurely due to sudden death. This article reviews Western and Asian literature on HCM, including recent studies of large, regionally based cohorts that reflect the full spectrum of disease. Th...

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Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Risk Insurance As a Strategy to Adapt Climate Change

Agricultural production is subject to high risk associated with environmental and agro-ecological conditions. Farmers continuously make decisions to mitigate the various adversities. This study evaluates farm households’ willingness to pay for agricultural risk insurance intervention introduced in Ethiopia in 2009. A bidding game approach is used to elicit willingness-to-pay. We use a unique da...