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Sep

Climate Risk Forum 2014

Topics: 
Weather index
Area yield
Livestock
Product distribution
Year: 
2014
Held as part of the New York City Climate Week, Climate Risk Forum 2014 is organized jointly by the World Bank Group's Global Index Insurance Facility and International Research Institute for Climate and Society. The event focuses on: Index insurance as a tool for Climate Risk Management; sc aling up index insurance and boosting private sector participation; and l ocal implementation and impact evaluation. View event highlights here .
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Pranav Prashad interview

Pranav Prashad of ILO's Impact Insurance Facility on demand for index insurance.

Topics: 
Weather index
Product distribution
Pranav Prashad, Technical Officer at International Labour Organization's Impact Insurance Facility talks about demand for index insurance. This video was shot at the Agriculture Insurance Conference in Berlin 2014.
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Jean Luc interview

Jean-Luc Perron of Grameen Crédit Agricole at AIC 2014

Topics: 
Weather index
Product distribution
Jean-Luc Perron, Managing Director of Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance talks about defining and growing the market for index insurance.
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Parametric Insurance: A hopeful vision coming to life

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Product distribution
Despite representing only a small portion of the total Property & Casualty market, parametric insurance has evolved rapidly in the last decade. This relatively new approach to insurance is index-based. At AXA, we believe that parametric insurance will continue to flourish in the future. Despite representing only a small portion of the total Property & Casualty market, parametric insurance has evolved rapidly in the last decade. This relatively new approach to insurance is index-based. For instance, in some geographies, claims could be paid out based on actual meteorological conditions...
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Climate Corporation Builds Massive Data Platform for Agriculture in the US

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Product design
Weather index
Hybrid
Catastrophe weather derivative
Product distribution
According to The Climate Corporation – a tech company based in San Francisco -- data science has the potential to fundamentally improve the productivity and sustainability of global agriculture. Since 2007, the Climate Corporation has been hard at work building a technology platform that combines hyper-local weather monitoring, agronomic data modeling, and high-resolution weather simulations that are updated hourly. On the platform (see www.climate.com ), Climate has built products to protect farmers with index-based insurance and improve profits with software that help farmers make more...
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Can Weather Index Insurance Increase Finance for Smallholder Farmers?

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Product design
Weather index
Product distribution
Micro-level
Meso-level
Smallholder farmers need finance. According to a recent report of 1,800 banks conducted by the Initiative for Smallholder Finance – “ Local Bank Financing for Smallholder Farmers: A $9 Billion Drop in the Ocean ” - local banks in developing countries are currently lending approximately $9 billion to smallholder farmers compared to a total estimated demand of $300 billion globally for smallholder finance ($450 billion if China is included) . Although smallholder farmer financing also occurs through MFIs and non- financial intermediaries like supply chain participants, cooperatives and...
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Interview with Benjamin Collier, Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Data management
Earthquake data
Satellite data
Product design
Product distribution
Collier argues that index insurance is best suited to cover disasters which occur every 20 years or greater because severe risks lower premium costs. Below are excerpts form the interview. Q: You have done substantial research, notably with Jerry Skees on index insurance. Why do you think that index insurance needs to be designed as “disaster insurance” rather than “crop insurance”? A: We need a new frame of reference for household markets. Up to now, the consensus focus has been crop yields. Yet the effects of bad weather on household well-being are often multifaceted and poorly captured by...
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IFC Agri-Insurance Expert Gary Reusche on Public Private Partnerships and Portfolio Approach

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Public/Legal frameworks
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Product design
Weather index
Product distribution
Farmers know that there will be years when the crop yields are reduced, or prices will be low. Perhaps they will diversify their crops, depend on livestock, or purchase a system to irrigate their crops. All these are ways to mitigate and reduce their risks. When there is no insurance culture or trust in insurance companies -and insurance companies themselves may not have extensive experience selling agricultural insurance - there is understandably little interest to purchase crop insurance. In such cases, it is the government who is the de facto insurer because crop losses of more than 50...
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World Bank Group-Led Community of Index-Insurance Practitioners to Enhance Exchange of Knowledge, Expertise

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
General
Weather index
Product distribution
BERLIN, November 27, 2014 —The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), an innovative program managed by the World Bank Group, launched today the Index Insurance Forum at the Agricultural Insurance Conference in Berlin. The Index Insurance Forum will serve as a unique forum for knowledge sharing and exchange of best practices among index-insurance practitioners and industry representatives.
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Interview with Peer Stein: Index Insurance Is For Farmers What Credit Scoring Was For Consumer and Small Bank Lending

Tue, 01/13/2015
Topics: 
General
Product distribution
Micro-level
Meso-level
Is index insurance poised for a great leap forward similar to the rapid growth experienced by microfinance and credit bureaus in the 1990s? Index insurance clearly holds a lot of promise to help unlock productivity gains and protect farmers all around the world. Index insurance is for insuring farmers, MSMEs and individuals what credit scoring was for consumer and small business lending - a huge opportunity to make financial services much more widely available at lower cost by using smart analytics and data. In this sense, index insurance may be even more promising than microcredit because...
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