To Farm or Not to Farm: An Introduction to Index Insurance

When we do insurance projects to help low income farmers manage climate risk, how do we make sure we are doing them justice, and meeting their needs? The first video provides an overview, the second video shows how research is used to make projects better, and the third video talks about how we are using new technologies to connect more directly with farmers in the future.

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Members of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society's Financial Instruments Sector (FIS) Team explain how farmer-driven index insurance can help manage climate risks and make farmers more resilient and productive.
Scientists and farmers in Honduras explain how interactive simulations help them co-develop an insurance product to mitigate drought risk. These experimental activities have supported farmers designing their own climate risk management tools.

Read more about this project.

La version en español esta disponible aquí. 

 

Read more about the lessons IRI has learned from ten years of index insurance, and where the project goes from here.