1. Agro-Adapt Assessment Framework (SLU)
Agro Adapt is an assessment framework for insurers and regional administrations to enable them to better model and anticipate resource risks from climate adaptation policy in agriculture. The service enables insurers and Regional Administrations to better predict and model regional transformations in agri-industry and enabling them to understand the effects of farm level adaptation to climate variability, and associated changes to local regional economic output (eg GVA, tax and jobs) as well as underlying demand for and pressures on rural resources like water and land.
IMPACT: national GHG mitigation, sustainable food production, climate resilience, better resource management
STAGE: Climate-KIC flagship Climate-Smart Agriculture Booster, has created two pilot case studies Seguro River basin in SE Spain and climate adaption strategies in NE Italy (Emilia Romagna).
SCALE: Two new pilots will be run in France in , led by INRA. These frameworks will be improved and better frameworks for understanding risks and economic benefits from climate adaptation policies are applicable and valuable to all other semi-autonomous European regions.
Frameworks for better understanding of water security risk (eg to flood and drought risk) also pinpoint collective environmental and economic gains that arise in terms of achieving public water policy objectives.
The Spanish Agricultural Insurance System was founded in 1978 to provide a technical and financially viable cover that would allow the agricultural sector to cope with the severe damage caused to production by uncontrollable and unpredictable risks that have catastrophic consequences and to provide the State with an effective instrument to implement a rational policy for the sector.
Agricultural insurance in Spain is based on joint participation between public and private institutions. It is voluntary and private insurance companies participation is realised through a coinsurance pooling scheme (22 companies currently take part in it). Agricultural insurance cost for producers is partly subsidized by the Government.
Currently, there is insurance available to cover all agricultural production against virtually all natural risks. This system is considered one of the most successful and wide-reaching in the world.