Uninsured risk is a major hurdle to investment, productivity growth, and poverty reduction for smallholder agriculturalists in developing countries. Traditional claims-based insurance, however, has been proven to be prohibitively costly. Index insurance is an increasingly popular tool being used by national governments and the international development to help mitigate inherent risks faced by vulnerable agriculturalists in the developing world. 

This presentation took place at the Feed the Future Market Systems Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) in Bangkok, Thailand on March 21-24, 2017.