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IFC, EU and Syngenta Foundation to Expand Weather Insurance to One Million East African Farmers

Tue, 01/13/2015
Topics: 
General
Data
Satellite data
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Hybrid
Catastrophe weather derivative
Product distribution
Micro-level
Meso-level
Country: 
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
GIIF, a member of the World Bank Group, signed two grant agreements, with a combined value of $3.9 million, with the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture to expand index-based insurance to small-scale farmers in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Index-based weather insurance can protect against the adverse effects of climate change and help to strengthen food security in rural communities.
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World Bank Group Global Index Insurance Facility Receives $25 Million from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mon, 01/12/2015
Topics: 
General
Data
Satellite data
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Hybrid
Product distribution
Micro-level
Meso-level
The World Bank Group signed an agreement marking the $25 million contribution by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of scaling up insurance markets in developing countries over the next five years, thus helping to ensure that agricultural insurance becomes a sustainable business model for smallholder farmers.
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Protecting Senegal's Farmers Against Drought and Crop Failure

Content owner: 
GIIF - World Bank Group
Topics: 
Data
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Catastrophe weather derivative
Meso-level
The soil that Abdoulaye Ndiaye holds in his hand is dry and dusty. A little further away in the Kaolack region the groundnut plants are already beginning to spring up in the fields, but in Paskoto village Abdoulaye and his fellow farmers have not seen a drop so far this season. "The most important challenge for us is the weather. It is God who decides. We have no choice, but are just left looking for ways to handle the situation," Abdoulaye says, now using his hand to shield his eyes against the stark sunlight.
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Using Satellite Data for Index Insurance

Content owner: 
GIIF - World Bank Group
Author: 
Christina Files and International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Topics: 
Data
Data management
Satellite data
Product design
Weather index
Satellite Technology and its continued advancement is critical to the relevance and accuracy of index insurance products as a counter against weather-related risks. The World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) in partnership with its regional partners has been working with researchers and scientists to refine satellite technology for index insurance product design.
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20
Jan

Launch of Online Knowledge Platform focused on Index-Insurance

Topics: 
General
Data
Product design
Weather index
Product distribution
Year: 
2015
The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), part of the World Bank Group’s Finance and Markets Global Practice, will launch indexinsuranceforum.org , an online knowledge platform for index-insurance practitioners globally on January 20, 2015. The official launch event will be held in the ACP Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium and will see GIIF’s key donors, including the European Union and The African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) Group, in attendance. The platform features knowledge products, research and discussions on key issues related to the development of innovative index-insurance...
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La lutte contre la pauvreté rurale passe par l’innovation

Sat, 12/27/2014
Topics: 
General
Data
Product design
Weather index
Hybrid
Product distribution
Meso-level
Country: 
Rwanda
Niyitegeka Veneranda, 55 ans, est agricultrice au Rwanda. Elle a sept enfants et cinq petits-enfants. Alors qu’elle possède moins d’un hectare de terrain avec son mari, elle a réussi a construire une petite maison, à nourrir sa famille et à envoyer se trois plus jeunes enfants à l’école. Grâce à une assurance agricole, elle a obtenu un prêt d’une banque locale qui lui a permis d’accroître sa production de riz, et elle prévoit de demander un autre prêt l’année prochaine pour étendre encore sa surface cultivable.
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12
Dec

Food and Nutrition Security, Agriculture and Climate Change

Topics: 
Data
Data management
Weather index
Area yield
Catastrophe weather derivative
Year: 
2014
On the sidelines of UNFCCC COP20 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and CARE will host a half day seminar to raise awareness and showcase actions on approaches to address the food and nutrition security and climate change challenges.
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Weather Index Insurance for Maize Production in Eastern Indonesia

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Data
Weather index
Catastrophe weather derivative
Product distribution
This study explores the feasibility of weather index insurance (WII) in providing cost-effective ways for rural dwellers to manage risk and better cope with catastrophic events. The case study analyzed is drought coverage for maize production risk in Eastern Indonesia. Indonesia is considered one of the more vulnerable countries to hydro-meteorological risks in Asia. In some agricultural areas, harvest and production dip significantly during ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) events due to belownormal rainfall. Indonesian production is highly dependent upon rainfall. Only 17 percent of the...
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Weather Index-Based Insurance: An ex ante Evaluation for Cotton Cameroon

Content owner: 
Antoine Leblois
Author: 
Antoine Leblois
Topics: 
Data
Full Publication Cotton is the major cash crop of Cameroon, however, even if it represents a quarter of agricultural exports it is only about six percent of total exports (Gergerly, 2009). The cotton society: SODECOTON (Soci´et´e de D´eveloppement du Coton du Cameroun) and the CMDT its Malian counterpart, are the only West African cotton societies that are still public monopsonies. Those parastatals are thus the only agent in the country to buy cot- ton from producers at pan-seasonally and -territorially fixed price (Delpeuch and Leblois, forthcoming). The national cotton producers...
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Weather Index-Based Insurance in a Cash Crop Regulated Sector: Ex Ante Evaluation for Cottom Producers in Cameroon

Author: 
Antoine Leblois, Philippe Quirion, Benjamin Sultan
Topics: 
Data
Source: ILO Impact Insurance Full publication In the Sudano-sahelian region, 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 and regularly entail food crises. Traditional insurances based on crop damage assessment are not available because of asymmetric information and high transaction costs compared to the value of production. Moreover the important spatial variability of the weather creates a room for pooling the impact of bad weather using index-based...
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