This paper reviews the status of weather and climate services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA).Worldwide, the accuracy … and value of weather and climate services are rising, bringing great economic benefits. However, many National … often missed. Much more could be done to mitigate weather disasters, support the productivity of smallholding and commercial …

Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on … subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather. Droughts and floods wipe out crops, leaving … weather even more variable in many countries, exacerbating problems such as droughts, extreme temperatures and flooding …

strategy for addressing the financial weather risks facing the agricultural sector of Jamaica. As such, it identifies the … various options from current available financial risk transfer instruments for addressing crop weather risks for small farmers … weather risk management; fourth section contains the elements of public policy and investments to support market development …

This report uses new measures of extreme weather and methodologies to gauge their welfare effects. A myriad of … methodological issues and data constraints plague empirical work on the effects of extreme weather events on human welfare. The … investment policies in fostering them; 3) capacity needs assessments; and 4) the human welfare effects of extreme weather events …

contract. Although coffee was also recommended for inclusion in a weather insurance pilot project as an important export crop …

to the development of weather index-based insurance, is the availability of complete meteorological data. Limitations … with the data are related to restrictions in weather station coverage (density), and problems with the quality (errors and … development of weather insurance contracts. Section four summarizes the main conclusions. …