During 2020, IWMI worked with private-sector partners and NGOs to trial satellite-based weather insurance products to poor farmers in India and Bangladesh. As a result, more than 4,000smallholders received insurance payouts that helped them recover quickly from damaging floods. When the insurance was bundled with seeds and weather information, farmers’ resilience to climate shocks was further enhanced. IWMI is now working to scale up the use of satellite-based weather insurance in India and Bangladesh, and introduce it to new area
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to extreme climate events. With over...
Bad weather is a serious risk for low-income farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and others whose live...
Picture-Based Insurance provides affordable high-quality crop insurance by using smartphone images o...
IBFI products tested to thousands more farmers through private sector partnerships. In India, its wo...
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI), relying on advanced modeling with the use of satellite data, spe...
Pilot projects in India and Bangladesh demonstrate that index-based weather insurance products, deve...
Index Based Flood Insurance, by deploying advanced modeling techniques using satellite data, enabled...
In South Asia, the CGIAR-led innovation of bundled agricultural technologies (including index-based ...
Floods and other weather-related disasters plague farmers in Bangladesh, and climate change threaten...
Over 750 million people in South Asia are vulnerable to natural disasters. Climate change - induced ...
Bangladesh is located in the low-lying river delta formed by the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rive...
Establishing well-designed insurance schemes in agriculture not only enhances resilience when climat...
With current and anticipated increases in magnitude of extreme weather events and a declining consi...
In India, agriculture contributes 14% of the GDP and employs 54% of the workforce (NCAER 2013). It a...
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI) is an innovative approach to developing effective payout schemes ...
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to extreme climate events. With over...
Bad weather is a serious risk for low-income farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and others whose live...
Picture-Based Insurance provides affordable high-quality crop insurance by using smartphone images o...
IBFI products tested to thousands more farmers through private sector partnerships. In India, its wo...
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI), relying on advanced modeling with the use of satellite data, spe...
Pilot projects in India and Bangladesh demonstrate that index-based weather insurance products, deve...
Index Based Flood Insurance, by deploying advanced modeling techniques using satellite data, enabled...
In South Asia, the CGIAR-led innovation of bundled agricultural technologies (including index-based ...
Floods and other weather-related disasters plague farmers in Bangladesh, and climate change threaten...
Over 750 million people in South Asia are vulnerable to natural disasters. Climate change - induced ...
Bangladesh is located in the low-lying river delta formed by the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rive...
Establishing well-designed insurance schemes in agriculture not only enhances resilience when climat...
With current and anticipated increases in magnitude of extreme weather events and a declining consi...
In India, agriculture contributes 14% of the GDP and employs 54% of the workforce (NCAER 2013). It a...
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI) is an innovative approach to developing effective payout schemes ...
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to extreme climate events. With over...
Bad weather is a serious risk for low-income farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and others whose live...
Picture-Based Insurance provides affordable high-quality crop insurance by using smartphone images o...