Building Resilience to Droughts; Scaling up Weather Insurance in China, India, and Thailand

@inproceedings{Sirimanne2015BuildingRT,
  title={Building Resilience to Droughts; Scaling up Weather Insurance in China, India, and Thailand},
  author={Shamika N. Sirimanne and Suresh Narain Srivastava and S. E. Kim and H. M. D. Li and Anna Firer and S. Sinha},
  year={2015},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:102496007}
}
Drought is a high-cost natural hazard that impacts on a large cross-section of poor, small, and marginal famers. It hits the agriculture sector the hardest, particularly in developing countries. In Asia and the Pacific region, almost 40% of the population are employed in agriculture, which contributes 7% to regional gross domestic product (GDP), approximately twice the global average (UNESCAP Statistical Yearbook 2013). Weather uncertainty is the root cause of drought risk. Drought risk… 
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