Insurance as an agricultural disaster risk management tool: evidence and lessons learned from South Asia
Pilot projects in India and Bangladesh demonstrate that index-based weather insurance products, developed using satellite technology, can reduce the financial risks to smallholder farmers from floods and droughts. Scaling up such schemes has the potential to meet the needs of very vulnerable groups,...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Brief |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106053 |
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