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Evidences of climate change impact on the americas | June – August 2016

Even though many skeptics doubt about the existence of the progressive global warming due to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gasses such as, mainly, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere; reality is that climate has changed in the last 50 years. This, considering the results of scientific researches that support that the increase of extreme climate events such as droughts, frosts, flooding, more intense hurricanes, tornados, from recent years are related to the planet temperature increase. In the

Climate 2015 in the americas | November 2015

According to the results of the forecasts of IRI, NOAA and other international institutions   specialized in climate study: this summer, on the North hemisphere, and winter, in the South hemisphere, in 2015 the climate event El Niño on its Extreme condition, would cause significant changes in rainfall and temperature patterns in the American Continent. Now it’s time to count affectations in order to assimilate past events and to apply the acquired knowledge so as to benefit the crop insurance. El Niño

The climate and agriculturañ insurance

Global Agricultural Insurance, including that practiced in the Americas, is a strategic response by governments to cope with the onslaught of extreme weather events resulting from Climate Change and that have a direct impact on food production. This is part of a process of adapting current agriculture to the new climatic circumstances of the world in order to mitigate the impacts of extreme events in the socio-economic environment. Crop insurance, today, is already a robust instrument commonly used among the countries