Weather indices for designing micro-insurance products for small-holder farmer in the tropics
| cg.contributor.crp | Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security | |
| cg.coverage.country | Nicaragua | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | NI | |
| cg.coverage.region | Latin America | |
| cg.coverage.region | Central America | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Peter Läderach: 0000-0001-8708-6318 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Mark Lundy: 0000-0002-5241-3777 | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038281 | en |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | en |
| cg.issn | 1932-6203 | en |
| cg.issue | 6 | en |
| cg.journal | PLOS ONE | en |
| cg.subject.ccafs | CLIMATE SERVICES AND SAFETY NETS | en |
| cg.volume | 7 | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Díaz Nieto, Jacqueline | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Fisher, Myles J. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Cook, Simon E. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Läderach, Peter R.D. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Lundy, Mark M. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-19T07:59:24Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-19T07:59:24Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34954 | |
| dc.title | Weather indices for designing micro-insurance products for small-holder farmer in the tropics | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Agriculture is inherently risky. Drought is a particularly troublesome hazard that has a documented adverse impact on agricultural development. A long history of decision-support tools have been developed to try and help farmers or policy makers manage risk. We offer site-specific drought insurance methodology as a significant addition to this process. Drought insurance works by encapsulating the best available scientific estimate of drought probability and severity at a site within a single number- the insurance premium, which is offered by insurers to insurable parties in a transparent risk-sharing agreement. The proposed method is demonstrated in a case study for dry beans in Nicaragua. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.available | 2012-06-21 | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Díaz Nieto J, Fisher M, Cook SE, Läderach P, Lundy M. 2012. Weather indices for designing micro-insurance products for small-holder farmer in the tropics. PLoS One 7(6): e38281. | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2012-06-21 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Public Library of Science | en |
| dcterms.subject | agriculture | en |
| dcterms.subject | climate | en |
| dcterms.subject | drought | en |
| dcterms.subject | policies | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |