Record Details

Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives
 
Creator Chantarat, S.
Turvey, C.G.
Mude, Andrew G.
Barrett, Christopher B.
 
Description Andrew G. Mude is ILRI author
This paper illustrates how weather derivatives indexed to forecasts of famine can be designed and used by operational agencies and donors to facilitate timely and reliable financing, for effective emergency response to climate-based, slow-onset disasters such as drought. We provide a general framework for derivative contracts, especially in the context of index insurance and famine catastrophe bond, and show how they can be used to complement existing tools and facilities in drought risk financing through a risk-layering strategy. We use the case of arid lands of northern Kenya, where rainfall proves a strong predictor of widespread and severe child wasting, to provide a simple empirical illustration of the potential contract designs.
 
Date 2010-03-24T19:51:59Z
2010-03-24T19:51:59Z
2008
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Chantarat, S.; Turvey, C.G.; Mude, A.G.; Barrett, C.B. 2008. Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives. Agricultural Finance Review 68(1):169-195.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/910
 
Language en
 
Source Agricultural Finance Review