University of Victoria
$75,000.00 CAD
≈ 12 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2019-2020
- Agreement period
- April 1, 2019 – May 30, 2022
- Reference
- aafc-aac:235-2019-2020-Q2-00003
Published purpose
The objective of this project is to determine if weather-index insurance (WII) be effective in mitigating the adverse impacts of weather risk on the yield and the quality of output, while simplifying and speeding up the payment process; and, to explore how can WII products complement current Canadian BRM programs to attract farmers to participate in such an insurance product.
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