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Entitled "Managing Uncertainty for Growth and Poverty Reduction: Agriculture Sector Risk Management," the report reveals that growth projections in Rwanda depend heavily on the performance of the agriculture sector. The special focus section assesses the different risks to Rwanda's agriculture sector, prioritizes them according to their frequency and severity of impact, and identifies areas of risk management solutions that need deeper specialized attention.  

This paper scoped three pilot models of weather index-based insurance (WII) that are initiated separately by both the private sector and by PCIC (as part of ILO-supported project on innovative agricultural financing). The early experiences of different stakeholders who have piloted and implemented WII in the country have shown that it can be an effective risk transfer instrument that can complement other proactive climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies.

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iCSC_Weather-Indexed-Insurance_Braving-the-Uncerntainties.pdf

There is a growing consensus among development community that the risk insurance can provide an effective risk management tool for mitigating the impacts of climatic and non-climatic disasters. Several risk insurance initiatives have been implemented at grassroots level for reducing the vulnerability of communities to disasters in most of the countries in Asia and the Pacific over the years.

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promoting-risk-financing-asia-pacific-lessons-agri-insurance_0.pdf

Food security is highly sensitive to climate risks in Senegal. Recent climate-related events, specifically the 2011/2012 drought, have highlighted the impact of droughts and floods on food production, access to markets, and livelihoods. However, the ways in which specific vulnerabilities are linked to climate have not been well studied. The purpose of this analysis was to quantitavely and qualitatively assess climate impacts (climate variability, change, and extremes) on food security and livelihoods.

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Climate risk and food security in Senegal- Analysis of climate impacts on food security and livelihoods.pdf

Climate change affects the mean and variability of weather conditions and the frequency of extreme events, which to a great extent determines the variability of production and yields. This paper reviews the scientific literature on the impacts of climate change on yield variance and investigates their implications for the demand of crop insurance and effectiveness of different farm strategies and policy measures using crop farm data in Australia, Canada and Spain.

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OECD A Comparative Study of Risk Management in Agriculture under Climate Change.pdf

The probabilistic approach to drought risk assessment in this study consists of conducting a frequency analysis of the gaps between water demand and availability in the crop root zone during the crop season, constructing appropriate drought vulnerability models, and deriving loss exceedance curves and return period losses for selected crops in drought prone countries of Africa.

Groundnut is an import cash crop in Ghana and an essential component of the diet of many Ghanaians. In 2009, Ghanaian farmers produced 495,000 metric tonnes of groundnuts on 346,900 ha. Production tripled between 1995 and 2005 (Yaw et al. 2008). Groundnut is grown throughout the country, but is most important in the two regions of the north, Northern and Upper East, where about a fifth of farmers name groundnut as one of their two most important crops.