Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the most recent scientific literature on the
determinants explaining the demand for index-insurance, the impact of index-insurance and …

The purpose of this article is to structure the extant knowledge on the determinants of
microinsurance demand in a manner that achieves several outcomes. First is to offer a …

If climate change scenarios include higher variance in weather variables, this can have
important effects on pest and disease risk beyond changes in mean weather conditions. We …

Index insurance is a promising avenue for addressing risk in develo** countries, but pilot
index insurance projects are rarely scaled-up because demand remains disappointingly …

Index‐based weather insurance is increasingly used to manage weather‐related risks in
smallholder agriculture. However, cash‐constrained smallholders often lack the resources to …

This study develops a methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance design.
Because the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that weather shocks can play in
the livestock mortality microinsurance take-up when the insured risk has a prevalent …

Index‐based insurance offers a climate risk management strategy that can benefit the poor.
This article focuses on whether adopting index insurance improves access to financial …

Tree planting around homesteads has been a long tradition in E thiopia. We assessed the
management practice and benefits of homestead plantations with data gathered from …

Conventional indemnity-based insurance (“conventional insurance”) and index-based
insurance (“index insurance”) represent two primary insurance types, each harboring distinct …