In the Sudano-sahelian zone, which includes Northern Cameroon, the inter-annual variability of the rainy season is high and irrigation is scarce. As a consequence, bad rainy seasons have a massive impact on crop yield. Traditional insurances, which would mitigate such impact, suffer from asymmetric information. They are based on crop damage assessment leading to high transaction costs compared ...

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...

There are several index insurance methodologies. Most of them rely on linear piece-wise methods. Recently, there has been studies promoting the potential data-driven methodologies in construction models due to their ability capture intricate non-linear structures. However, these types frameworks have mainly implemented high-income countries large amounts data and high-frequency requirements. Th...

Lack of access to insurance exacerbates the impact of climate variability on smallholder famers in Africa. Unlike traditional insurance, which compensates proven agricultural losses, weather index insurance (WII) pays out in the event that a weather index is breached. In principle, WII could be provided to farmers throughout Africa. There are two data-related hurdles to this. First, most farmer...