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30 October 2022
IAMO and Uzbek state insurance company sign Memorandum of Understanding
The MoU between IAMO and the Uzbek insurance company Uzagrosugurta aims at an intensive transfer of research results and knowledge on index-based insurance for farmers.
On 28 October 2022, IAMO Director Thomas Glauben and the Chairman of the Board of Uzagrosugurta JSC, Shukhrat G. Rasulov, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions. One of the important aims of this cooperation is an intensive...
17 October 2022
KlimALEZ workshop at the CASIB Regional Stakeholder Conference 2022
From 18 to 19 October 2022 participates the KlimALEZ Team at the CASIB Regional Stakeholder Conference 2022: Green Innovations for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Central Asia presenting the KlimALEZ project to the representatives from...
09 June 2022
Delegation from Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS)
On May 24, 2022, IAMO representatives met with a scientific delegation from the Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS) in scope of their visit at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
The purpose of the meeting was to present research...
06 October 2021
Stakeholder Workshop on Innovative Index Insurance in Central Asia
On November 18, KlimALEZ team will organize an online dissemination workshop presenting project finding for stakeholder from business, politics and research. In addition to presentations for project members on novel data tools and applications, the...
10 September 2021
Satellite Weather Data Extractor - Beta Version launched
The strongest impediment against the practical implementation of weather index insurance in developing countries is the lack of reliable long-term weather data. While the variety and quality of the satellite-based weather products has significantly...
09 September 2021
Featured research: How suitable are globally available satellite data for drought index insurance?
One of the main challenges of introducing crop index insurance in developing countries is the lack of reliable weather data for index development and implementation. A recent Klimalez study systematically analyzes the accuracy of several globally...
30 June 2020
Use of drones strengthens agriculture in dealing with climate change - tutorial video
Globally, April 2020 was (along April 2016), the warmest April on record. As in many other countries worldwide, another drought would considerably harm the agricultural sector, which already suffered heavy yield losses in the past years.
Internation...
18 June 2020
Science to Business and Policy: KlimALEZ supports the launch of satellite-based index insurance for Mongolian wheat producers
In the scope of the project KlimALEZ, IAMO researchers have successfully supported the launch of Mongolia’s first index insurance product for wheat growers. Since 2017, the KlimALEZ team has been advising the Ministry of Agriculture and the insurance...
10 February 2020
KlimALEZ team meeting with Minister for Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Jamshid Khodjaev
On January 16, the Minister for Agriculture of Uzbekistan Jamshid Khodjaev met IAMO Director Prof. Thomas Glauben and his colleagues Dr. Ihtiyor Bobojonov and Dr. Lena Kuhn for a discussion in the Uzbek Embassy in Berlin. In the meeting, the Ministry...
05 September 2019
CLIENT II-Project is convincing Uzbek government on importance of index based insurance against climate risks
The recent decree of the president of Uzbekistan from 2 August 2019 “On measures of reforming the fast development of the insurance market of the Republic of Uzbekistan” mentioned the importance of establishing an index-insurance market in the...