Overcoming challenges to deliver agricultural weather-index insurance

This brief identifies and addresses key issues facing weather-index-based agricultural insurance. Drawing on diverse experiences from Africa and Central America, it zooms in on key challenges such as affordability, quality of weather data and models, raising awareness and trust in the benefits of i...

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Autores principales: Erena, Getaneh, Popova, Viktoria, Vakaki, Eleni, Woerd, Joost van der, Zewdie, Yihenew
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2019
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100885
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Sumario:This brief identifies and addresses key issues facing weather-index-based agricultural insurance. Drawing on diverse experiences from Africa and Central America, it zooms in on key challenges such as affordability, quality of weather data and models, raising awareness and trust in the benefits of insurance products and policy and regulatory frameworks. To have real impact, scale is the first requirement. Scaling strategies require reliable products, access to the rural areas, increased awareness about insurance and cost-effective delivery channels.