New Tool Shows Promise For Index Insurance To Reach More Farmers

How can we keep getting vital farmer input to index insurance design while also expanding the insurance products to reach many more people? It’s been a lingering puzzle, but IRI staff have developed a new tool to…

INFOGRAPHIC: What are Climate Services?

As climate services emerge as a new field of research and practice, what the field encompasses depends on who you ask.

Can technology help insurance reach more farmers? Inside the research to find out

Playing is Believing

Insurance Games with Farmers Promote Mutual Understanding of Climate Risk…

How do we know when index insurance payouts are right? It’s not an easy question to answer.

Negotiating Climate’s Parallel Realities

How in less than two weeks, I went from the American election to a UN climate summit in Morocco to discussing a lack of rainfall with farmers in Senegal.

Verifying Satellite Data with Farmer Reports

Index insurance uses satellite-based rainfall estimates to calculate how much money a farmer will receive in a drought. For index insurance to expand and reach more farmers, these estimates must be consistent with actual rainfall received by farmers…

New Coffee Insurance Pilot Launches in Colombia