This paper reviews the potential role for and experience with index based insurance for managing drought risks in agriculture and rural areas in the dry areas of developing countries It argues that while index insurance is not a panacea for risk management, it could make important, market-based...

This paper reviews and synthesizes IFPRI’s research program on agricultural insurance since 2009, a period that encompasses all the activities for which financial support from PIM was obtained during 2012-2020. The paper reviews activities that were undertaken, synthesizes and evaluates the...

Agricultural insurance has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multi-peril crop insurance, and...

Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multiperil crop insurance and strengthen agricultural risk management at scale across developing countries. This...