Resultados de búsqueda - "Wii"

Sequenced crop evapotranspiration and water requirement in developing a multitrigger rainfall index insurance and risk-contingent credit por Ndegwa, Michael K., Shee, Apurba, Turvey, Calum, Liangzhi You

“…However, the uptake of WII has been hampered by high spatial and intraseasonal basis risk. …”
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Unpacking barriers to socially inclusive weather index insurance: towards a framework for inclusion por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali, Arulingam, Indika

“…Risk transfer mechanisms, such as weather index insurance (WII) may help buffer farmers against these hazards. …”
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Willingness to Pay for Weather-Indexed Insurance: Evidence from Cambodian Rice Farmers por Wang, Qingxia, Soksophors, Yim, Barlis, Angelica, Mushtaq, Shahbaz, Phanna, Khieng, Swaans, Cornelis P.M., Rodulfo, Danny

“…This study examines Cambodian rice farmers’ willingness to pay for the weather-indexed insurance (WII) proposed to manage the financial impact of shifting monsoon rainfall patterns in Battambang Province in north-western Cambodia. …”
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Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya por Sibiko, Kenneth W., Veettil, Prakashan C., Qaim, Matin

“…One reason is that WII contracts are not yet sufficiently tailored to the needs and preferences of smallholder farmers. …”
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Mind the gender gap in farmers’ preferences for weather-index insurance por Akter, Sonia, Krupnik, Timothy J., Rossi, Frederick, Khanam, Fahmida, International Rice Research Institute, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…In addition, the findings indicate the importance of continued investments to boost women’s agency and financial literacy, as a necessary precondition to enable WII schemes to work. Lastly, it is imperative that a WII scheme must be as realistic and simple as possible for the intended clients, particularly women, to understand the insurance product. …”
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Drought-tolerant rice, weather index insurance, and comprehensive risk management for smallholders: Evidence from a multiyear field experiment in India por Ward, Patrick S., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on farmers’ demand for two drought risk–management products: a recently released DT rice cultivar and a more comprehensive DT-WII risk–management bundle. The paper makes several noteworthy contributions. …”
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Making index-based flood insurance socially inclusive in Bangladesh: challenges and options por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…To date, most WII schemes have been pilots implemented mainly by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and donors. …”
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Bundled weather index insurance pilot for drought-affected areas in Sri Lanka: reaching marginal farmers por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Samarakoon, Kalani, de Silva, Sanjiv

“…This paper assesses the effectiveness of satellite-based weather Index insurance (WII) bundled with real-time climate and agronomic advisory services provided to farmers’ mobile phones. …”
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Are Vietnamese coffee farmers willing to pay for weather index insurance? por Le Ngoc, Lan, Mushtaq, Shahbaz, Wang, Qingxia (Jenny), Barlis, Angelica, Deniau, Aline, Byrareddy, Vivekananda Mittahalli, Anh, Huynh Tan, Swaans, Kees

“…Weather index insurance (WII) offers an opportunity for coffee farmers to mitigate the climate risks in production and motivate them to adopt sustainable farming practices. …”
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What rainfall does not tell us—Enhancing financial instruments with satellite-derived soil moisture and evaporative stress por Enenkel, Markus, Farah, Carlos, Hain, Christopher, White, Andrew, Anderson, Martha, You, Liangzhi, Wagner, Wolfgang, Osgood, Daniel

“…Advanced parametric financial instruments, like weather index insurance (WII) and risk contingency credit (RCC), support disaster-risk management and reduction in the world’s most disaster-prone regions. …”
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Assessment of farmers’ willingness to pay for bundled climate insurance solutions in Sri Lanka por Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Amarnath, Giriraj, Alahacoon, Niranga, Prasad, S., Dissanayake, A.

“…The research assessed farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for weather index insurance (WII) solutions with bundled choices as a risk transfer tool with due consideration to the diversity and heterogeneity of the farming population. …”
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Bundled climate-smart agricultural solutions for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka por Amarnath, Giriraj, Taron, Avinandan, Alahacoon, Niranga, Ghosh, Surajit

“…We tested four bundled services to promote climate-smart agriculture practices namely weather index insurance (WII), agronomic advisories dissemination via SMS, weather services, and climate-resilient seeds of maize and rice. …”
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