[Microinsurancefocus] Report on Index-Based Weather Insurance in Mali

[van Bastelaer, Thierry]

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Livelihoods Team at Save the Children is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication: Pre-Feasibility Analysis: Index-Based Weather Risk Transfer in Mali. The report is product of a research project supported by USAID and other donors and carried out by GlobalAgRisk and Save the Children.  It is an assessment of several preconditions of the conditions for developing a weather insurance market in Mail including: the legal and regulatory environment; acceptance of the concept by users; quality of the weather infrastructure; correlation of weather events across space; and potential for developing a weather index that matches crop yields.  While the research revealed difficulty in determining a correspondence between rainfall levels and crop yields, the findings leave open the possibility of relying on other index-related approaches to design a rainfall drought insurance contract for farmers in Mali. 

 

The report can be found at http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/technical-resources/livelihoods/mali-weather-insurance.pdf.

 

Please contact my colleague Sarah Titus at stitus at savechildren.org if you have any trouble accessing the document.

 

Many thanks,

 

Thierry van Bastelaer

 

Thierry van Bastelaer | Senior Director, Livelihoods | International Program Leadership | Save the Children USA | 202.640.6690 | tvanbastelaer at savechildren.org 

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