Africa-Asia Conclave on Loss and Damage due to Climate Change: Instituting a Global Agricultural Insurance Programme as a Risk Sharing and Transfer Mechanism for Developing Countries

Agenda
 
Proceedings of the Conclave
 
CSE Proposal
 
Concept Note
Africa-Asia Conclave on Loss and Damage Due to Climate Change
 
Presentations
INAUGURAL SESSION
Setting the context
By: Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, CSE, New Delhi
G7 Climate Risk Insurance Initiative
By: Christina Schubert, Manager, InsuResilience Secretariat, GIZ
DAY 1: SESSION 1
Impacts of climate change on agriculture and role of agricultural insurance in building resilience in Asia
By: Vineet Kumar
Impacts of climate change on aguricultre and role of agricultural insurance in building resilience in Africa
By: Nelson Mutanda
Existing disaster risk reduction mechanism and role of agriculture insurance in building resilience in
By: Peter Nawiri, Kenya
Existing disaster risk reduction mechanism and role of agriculture insurance in building resilience in
By: Jamal Seid, Ethiopia
Existing disaster risk reduction mechanism and role of agriculture insurance in building resilience in
By: Feliciano Mataveia, Mozambique
DAY 1: SESSION 2
Overview of agricultural insurance in African and Asian countries
By: Vijeta Rattani
Overview of global agricultural insurance: experiences and challenges in Africa
By: James Sina
State of agricultural insurance: experiences and challenges in
By: Ashish Kumar Bhutani, India
The State of Agricultural Insurance in Kenya
By: Joab Osumba
State of agricultural insurance: experiences and challenges in
By: Chandika Vilashini Ethugala, Sri Lanka
DAY 1: SESSION 3
Overview of challenges in implementation of agricultural insurance
By: Geetika Singh
Problems and challenges faced by agricultural insurance companies in Asia and Africa
By: Mayur Ankolekar
Agricultural insurance: experiences and challenges
By: Malay Kumar Poddar, India
Agricultural insurance: experiences and challenges
By: Rahab Kariuki, ACRE Africa
Agricultural Insurance Nigeria: experience and challenges
By: Bashir Haliru
DAY 1: SESSION 4
Kenya Agriculture Insurance Experiences and challenges
By James Kiguru
DAY 2: SESSION 4
Small farmers perspectives: experience and challenges in agriculture insurance in Nepal
By: Meena Pokhrel
Small farmers perspectives: experience and challenges in agriculture in Kenya
By: Rupsha Bannerjee
Small farmers perspective: experience and challenges in agriculture in Malawi
By: Dyborn Chibonga
Small Farmers Perspective On Agricultural Insurance
By: Sebastien Weber
DAY 2: SESSION 5
Panel discussion: Opportunities and risks involved in global agriculture insurance mechanism – enabling climate justice to vulnerable farmers
By: Gezahegn Gebrehana
Panel discussion: Opportunities and risks involved in global agriculture insurance mechanism – enabling climate justice to vulnerable farmers
By: Isaac Kabongo
DAY 2: SESSION 6
Building a Global Agricultural Insurance Mechanism under the UNFCCC
By: Michael Ochieng’ Okumu
Loss and Damage due to Climate Change: Instituting a Global Agricultural Insurance Programme as a Risk Sharing and Transfer Mechanism for Developing Countries
By: YERIMA P. TARFA (PhD)
Building a Agricultural Insurance Mechanism Under the UNFCCC
By: Joab J. L. Osumba
Building Global Agricultural Insurance Mechanism under the UNFCCC– Case Study of Ghana
By: Helen Asiamah
 

scheduled to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 25-26 August, 2016.

Loss and damage is one of the main components of the Paris Agreement. At the next Conference of Parties (CoP 22) at Marrakesh, there would be a review of the two-year work plan of the Executive Committee (ExCom) under loss and damage and a five-year plan would be devised further.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) believes that since climate risks are faced disproportionately by the poor Asian and African countries which lack capability to reduce risk or cope with them, the importance of tools like agricultural insurance meant for sharing and transferring the risks are significant and therefore must receive greater attention globally. Hence a global agricultural insurance mechanism is necessary to address agricultural issues in the developing countries.

The Conclave seeks to get a better understanding on the issue of agricultural insurance and risk financing in the African and Asian countries and understand the underneath issues and challenges involved. It also intends to examine the feasibility of a global agricultural insurance mechanism as an integral part of the loss and damage mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Conclave will bring together experts and officials from the ministry, insurance industry and civil society members from fifteen African and South Asian countries which include Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.