Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme: A Strategy for Adapting to Climate Change
by Anshu Ogra; Economic & Political Weekly, 2018 53(31): 95-103.
Abstract: As a concept borrowed largely from the ecological sciences, adaptation to climate change has often invoked a sense of immediacy. This immediacy is often and mostly addressed in the policy domain by cherry-picking previously existing strategies that engage with weather in order to pass as climate change adaptation strategies. The Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme has effortlessly transitioned from being a type of agricultural insurance format based on the weather index, into a climate change adaption strategy. Examining the specific example of the Rainfall Insurance Scheme for Coffee shows that in its current form, the WBCIS is not designed as an adaptation strategy to face the challenges of climate change.
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