On behalf of René Gommes.

 

Regards,

 

Michele Bernardi

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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC/EC:
http://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mars/About-us/The-MARS-Unit, FoodSec Action)
and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI,
http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt) are jointly organising a
technical meeting on 

 

THE CHALLENGES OF INDEX-BASED INSURANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY IN DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES

 

The meeting is based on the perception that indices are a pivotal component
in index-based crop insurance systems, because of (i) the technical
difficulties on achieving good relationship with losses, and consequently on
mitigating the basis risk, (ii) the existing trade-off between
sophistication and transparency of the methods and (iii) the data sources,
availability and reliability that constrain the development and operational
use of the indices.

 

The meeting will take place in Ispra, Italy, on 2 and 3 May 2012.

 

Interested colleagues are invited to download the meeting flyer from the JRC
FTP site (ftp://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index-insurance-meeting) and to
contact the organizers

 

Please do feel free to distribute this announcement to your contacts.

 

R. Gommes

For the JRC/IRI Organizing Team