National Drought Insurance For Malawi

Abstract

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Meteorological and hydrological drought assessment in Lake Malawi and Shire River basins (1970–2013)

“…However, similar findings from Malawi (e.g. Menon 2007, Denning et al 2009, Syroka and Nucifora 2010 also underline the drought dynamics detected in this study, although they were based on different indicators, such as low farm production and famines. Such drought indicators do not fully reflect the meteorological drought in the area since there are many other factors that may result in famine or low farm production, such as a dry spell during a critical crop stage, crop varieties used and usage of fertilizer (Holden and Fisher 2015).…”

A review of droughts on the African continent: a geospatial and long-term perspective

“…Giannini et al, 2008;Govaerts and Lattanzio, 2008;Kasei et al, 2010;Lebel et al, 2009;Lodoun et al, 2013;Traore and Fontane, 2007;Zeng, 2003), eastern Africa (Horn of Africa) (e.g. Anderson et al, 2012;Syroka and Nucifora, 2010) and northwestern Africa (e.g. Touchan et al, 2008Touchan et al, , 2011.…”

Cost-Benefit Analysis of the African Risk Capacity Facility

“…Two other notable antecedents are the Government of Ethiopia's and Government of Malawi's weather derivatives. Whereas the Ethiopian macro weather-indexed insurance product was paid for by USAID and transacted by the WFP in 2006 but not renewed in 2007, the Malawian National Drought Insurance has been in force since 2008, and in recent years has been partly paid for by the Government of Malawi (Syroka and Nucifora 2010).…”