Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation

Our belief that index insurance holds significant potential to reduce climate risk for small-holder farmers through its protection and promotion roles, significantly improving the welfare of farm households, is why we are bringing together experts from across the insurance, agriculture and climate c...

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Main Authors: Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James W., Rose, Alison, Braun, Mélody
Format: Conference Paper
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92977
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description Our belief that index insurance holds significant potential to reduce climate risk for small-holder farmers through its protection and promotion roles, significantly improving the welfare of farm households, is why we are bringing together experts from across the insurance, agriculture and climate change sectors to find the best ways to scale-up index insurance schemes as a key climate change adaptation action. This background paper includes a short introduction to index-based agricultural insurance. The bulk of the paper (Section 3), however, focuses on the challenges and opportunities to scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance. Based on a review of secondary literature, interviews with key informants and the authors’ experience, we highlight a number of issues that warrant concerted multi-stakeholder attention and action in order to realize the potential of index insurance as a key component of climate change adaptation.
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spelling CGSpace929772024-01-23T12:04:48Z Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation Hellin, Jonathan Hansen, James W. Rose, Alison Braun, Mélody climate change agriculture food security insurance Our belief that index insurance holds significant potential to reduce climate risk for small-holder farmers through its protection and promotion roles, significantly improving the welfare of farm households, is why we are bringing together experts from across the insurance, agriculture and climate change sectors to find the best ways to scale-up index insurance schemes as a key climate change adaptation action. This background paper includes a short introduction to index-based agricultural insurance. The bulk of the paper (Section 3), however, focuses on the challenges and opportunities to scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance. Based on a review of secondary literature, interviews with key informants and the authors’ experience, we highlight a number of issues that warrant concerted multi-stakeholder attention and action in order to realize the potential of index insurance as a key component of climate change adaptation. 2017-05-14 2018-05-31T11:38:21Z 2018-05-31T11:38:21Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92977 en Open Access application/pdf Hellin J, Hansen JW, Rose A, Braun M. 2017. Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation. Wageningen, Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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Hellin, Jonathan
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Rose, Alison
Braun, Mélody
Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
title Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
title_full Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
title_fullStr Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
title_full_unstemmed Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
title_short Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
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url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92977
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