For most who practice it, crop reinsurance underwriting tends to be a part-time occupation, an activity that often may be usefully fitted in between the main renewal seasons for mainstream reinsurance business. As such it is easy for practitioners not to fully grasp the finer points of what they are covering. Although usually classified as property business, structures and rating techniques, etc, need to reflect the special characteristics of crop business.
This book is not intended to provide readers with any detailed descriptions of crop insurance underwriting or loss assessment, but provide an overview of the global crop insurance market and explain how reinsurance may be used to spread the risk assumed by the original insurer.
While there is no ‘secret formula’ to agricultural reinsurance, this book provides a meeting place for the ideas, anecdotes, philosophies and knowledge of the world’s talent pool in this specialist field, providing an excellent knowledge base and bringing many experts together.

Authors: Colin Packham and Nigel Ralph

ISBN: ISBN 13: 978-1-905331-96-3 (9781905331963), ISBN 10: 1-905331-96-7 (1905331967)
Binding Format: Hardback

CONTENTS
1.   The Crops
2.   Perils Insured in Crop Insurance Policies
3.   Policy Coverages
4.   History of Crop Insurance
5.   Methods of Crop Reinsurance
6.   The Pricing of Crop Reinsurance
7.   Reinsurance Markets (including Australia and New Zealand)
8.   Area Yield and Weather Based Crop Insurance
9.   Agricultural Reinsurance Market
10. Crop Reinsurance Brokers
11. Crop Loss Adjustment Services for Reinsurers