Turkey - TARSIM - Agricultural insurance pool (video)
Source - http://iais.tarsim.gov.tr
22.06.2016
09.03.2016
TARSIM launches an international event
Turkey has gained a worldwide reputation in a short time as a successful example in the field of agricultural insurance TARSİM (Agricultural Insurance Pool of Turkey). To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its establishment and successful development, TARSIM launches an international event - the International Agricultural Insurance Symposium (IAIS) which will be held in June 2016, in İstanbul, the meeting point of Europe and Asia, host of various civilizations and cultures throughout the centuries. Being the first large scale international organization on agricultural insurance in the region, TARSIM will gather about 500 participants from the institutions and organizations located in dozens of countries. Agroinsurance International (www.agroinsurance.com) is performing as the Information Partner for the event, being the key world's key web-portal for professional information on agricultural insurance and risk management. Source - agroinsurance.com
22.01.2016
International Conference on Agricultural Insurance - conference agenda updates
Registration continues for the third International Conference “Agricultural Insurance, Reinsurance and Brokerage in CIS, Europe and Asia”. The Conference agenda has been updated and it is available at the conference web site: www.agroinsconf.com. The leading reinsurance companies Munich Re, Swiss Re and Polish Re have confirmed that they will make presentations on specific agricultural insurance aspects, including forestry insurance, crop portfolio modelling, etc. We continue communicating with the leading agricultural insurance experts to confirm other presentations to make conference informative and useful to the participants. By the end of January a number of participants completed registration for event. Representatives of more than 15 countries will attend the conference. This includes participants from Switzerland, Israel, USA, Germany, UK, Iran, Poland and other countries from CIS and Central Europe regions. Government agencies of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Iran indicate their high interest. Representatives of insurance industry from Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan confirm their plans to take part in the venue. Their main goals are to exchange experience and learn from the best international practice presented at the event. We are pleased that Iranian State Agricultural Insurance Fund will participate in the Conference, which will be the first time since long time that this organization will come to the international agricultural insurance summit. The Conference Agenda will cover various technical issues of agricultural insurance with more updates coming in February 2016. The `Early Registration` fee offer is available for all Conference participants until February 29, 2016. Starting from March 1, 2016 the `Standard Registration’ fee will be applied. Official web page: www.agroinsconf.com Place for venue: Tbilisi Marriott Courtyard, Georgia Dates: April 11-13, 2016 Conference Organizer: AgroInsurance International LLC. - www.AgroInsurance.com Conference Manager: Ian Shynkarenko Contact phone: +995 599 3 777 01 Contact e-mail: info@agroinsconf.com Source - www.agroinsurance.com
06.01.2016
USA - Crop insurance conference set for Jan. 18 in Fargo
The latest information on crop insurance will be presented at the North Dakota State University Extension Service's annual crop insurance conference in Fargo on Jan.18. The conference will provide practical information for agricultural producers, and agribusiness professionals, as well as crop insurance agents. A registration fee of $110 includes a social on the evening of Jan. 17, and continental breakfast, lunch, breaks and conference materials on Jan. 18. The conference will be held at the Ramada Plaza Suites and Convention Center and starts at 8 a.m. with a session on ethics in the workplace. Other conference topics are: Weather outlook for 2016 Crop insurance issues in Washington Spring wheat margin protection Malt barley endorsement Economic outlook for 2016 Acreage reporting: Use of precision ag data Big data implications for crop insurance agents Dealing with data and drones: The legal challenges of farming in the future Unmanned aerial vehicle applications in agriculture Continuing education credits for North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota are available to crop insurance agents. Register here, and for more information, call 701-231-8642. Source - agweek.com
26.11.2015
AgroInsurance Conference Preparations - Tbilisi, April 11-13, 2015
Technical details of agricultural insurance to be discussed in April 2016, Tbilisi - AgroInsurance International AgroInsurance International announces new dates and place of the third International Conference "Agricultural Insurance, Reinsurance & Brokerage in CIS, Europe & Asia". The next venue will be held on April 11-13, 2016 in Tbilisi (Georgia) at the Marriott Courtyard. Conference registration starts on December 1, 2016. Call for presentations is open till January 31, 2016. Call for papers is open now – you may use the following link - http://goo.gl/forms/5FzBUJA4aY. Conference thematic sessions will focus on technical aspects of agricultural insurance and risks management programs in agriculture, from different parts of the world. The following key topics are considered: Crop and Livestock Insurance Programs Portfolio Risk Management in Agriculture Technical aspects of Loss Adjustment in Agricultural Insurance Satellite and Other High-tech Instruments for Innovative Insurance Solutions Development. Special attention will be dedicated to insurance programs for smallholders and technicalities of state support of agricultural insurance (PPP). International experts from leading insurance and reinsurance companies have already confirmed their interest in this event. Representatives of various state agencies and private sector delegates will attend this event to share experience and get knowledge of current international developments in agricultural insurance. The tentative Conference Agenda will be available starting December 15, 2015, upon confirmation of key presentations and speakers. AgroInsurance International team has successfully held two international Conferences in the past (2013 – in Ukraine, and 2014 – in Turkey). To learn more about past venues: agendas, lists of participants and speakers, you may visit the Conference official web page - www.agroinsconf.com Official web page: www.agroinsconf.com Place for venue: Tbilisi Marriott Courtyard, Georgia Dates: April 11-13, 2016 Conference Organizer: AgroInsurance International LLC. - www.AgroInsurance.com Conference Manager: Ian Shynkarenko Contact phone: +995 599 3 777 01 Contact e-mail: info@agroinsconf.com Source - www.agroinsurance.com
03.09.2015
33rd AIAG Congress, 27th to 30th September in Kansas City
This year's AIAG congress will take place from 27 to 30 September 2015 in Kansas City, USA, and will be the first time the event is hosted outside Europe. Its key theme will be "Private public partnerships and new technologies to secure food supply". A large number of international speakers will provide interesting insights into current issues. The specialist contributions will be supplemented by a panel discussion on the topic of "Possibilities to secure food supply". The congress will be rounded off with a varied accompanying programme. We cordially thank our hosts the US crop insurers, particularly NCIS and Rain and Hail, for agreeing to host this year's congress. We would also like to thank our sponsors for their generous support. It is possible to register until 31 August 2015. AIAG members have received a personal e-mail with a link to the registration form and further information. If you are interested in attending the congress, but have not received a personal e-mail, please contact us, info@anti-clutteraiag-iahi.org. We will inform you about the registration procedure. Many thanks. Venue InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza 401 Ward Parkway Kansas City, Missouri 64112 USA Tel. +1-816-7561500 Registration Fee Registration fee for AIAG members: EUR 600 per person Registration fee for non-AIAG members: EUR 875 per person The registration fee includes: Participation in the working sessions, simultaneous translation in German, English, French and Italian, congress documentation, coffee breaks, lunch on Monday and Tuesday, entitlement to participate in the accompanying programme. Accompanying persons, honorary committee members, honorary members and speakers are exempt from paying a registration fee. Accommodation Please make your own hotel reservation. Overnight accommodation is not included in the registration fee. Source - http://aiag-iahi.org
04.09.2014
2014 Livestock insurance and public-private partnership to be discussed in Istanbul
Agricultural insurance issues is going to be discussed at the International Conference "Agricultural Insurance, Reinsurance & Brokerage in CIS, Europe & Asia", October 6-8, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. Conference Agenda covers topics on high-value crop insurance, livestock insurance and national insurance programs development with PPP mechanisms applied. World’s top experts will discuss the importance of historical data use and its analysis for agricultural insurance programs development and actuarial calculation methodologies. Many international experts from leading reinsurance and insurance companies will present on methods and approaches to insurance tariffs calculations. Nowadays, a number of countries considering national agricultural insurance system reformation and development is raising significantly. Reinsurance and insurance industry representatives, brokers and insurance consultants from USA, Canada, Brazil and Turkey territories will share their experience on PPP programs development widely. These issues are of a specific importance for new national programs development in Caucasus countries, Eastern and Central Europe. Most of the speakers and topics included in the Conference Agenda have already been confirmed. Details are available at the official Conference website – www.agroinsconf.com. The Agenda is still going to be updated within next few days with several topics and speakers, who have recently confirmed their participation. Leading international experts from over 15 countries have already confirmed their Conference participation. 104 delegates from 22 countries attended the 2013 Conference, who represented 74 companies worldwide. The majority of Conference participants come from reinsurance and insurance industry, broker firms, banks, agricultural production holdings and international insurance consultants. Official web-site: www.agroinsconf.com Place for venue: InterContinental Istanbul, Turkey Dates: October 6-8, 2014 Conference Organizers: AgroInsurance International LLC. - www.AgroInsurance.com Conference Manager: Ian V. Shynkarenko Contact phone: +380 98 539 3335 Contact e-mail: info@agroinsconf.com Source - www.agroinsurance.com
07.08.2014
2014 Agricultural insurance issues to be discussed in October, Istanbul
New dates and place of the International Conference "Agricultural Insurance, Reinsurance & Brokerage in CIS, Europe & Asia" were set for October 6-8, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. Conference `Standard registration’ fee option has been launched on August 1, 2014. Conference Agenda will keep most of the topics planned earlier, as well, as it will be added with new speakers and topics. Quite a number of reinsurance and insurance industry representatives, brokers and insurance consultants from USA, Canada and Eurasia territories will participate in this event. Governmental agencies and private sector delegates from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan will also attend to share their experience and get new knowledge. Many international experts from leading reinsurance and insurance companies have already confirmed their presentation topics. Conference Agenda will cover the information on new solutions and approaches to actuarial work and agricultural underwriting. The Agenda will be updated on a regular basis by the end of August 2014, upon new topics and speakers’ confirmation. “Technology driven solutions for agricultural insurance” has been marked as one of the key topics of 2014 Conference. It includes not only satellite monitoring and remote sensing, but also a technology-driven tablet and Internet solutions for risk managements at farms, electronic applications for insurers and loss adjusters.. Another accent will be made on a discussion panel for the PPP in agricultural insurance. World’s top experts will discuss and advise on the role of efficient collaboration between private and public sector in developing the agricultural insurance programs on a national scale. The key accent here will be made on technical details, considering their great importance for developing countries of CIS, Europe and Asia. Official web-site: www.agroinsconf.com Place for venue: InterContinental Istanbul, Turkey Dates: October 6-8, 2014 Conference Organizers: AgroInsurance International LLC. - www.AgroInsurance.com Conference Manager: Ian V. Shynkarenko Contact phone: +380 98 539 3335 Contact e-mail: info@agroinsconf.com Source - www.agroinsurance.com
03.07.2014
Polish Re organized VI International Seminar on agricultural insurance in Torun
From 23rd until 25th of June 2014 Polish Reinsurance Company organized in Torun VI International Seminar on agricultural insurance.This time the Agro Seminar was dominated by three thematic blocks, all dedicated to crop insurance: - methods of selling crop insurance and cooperation between insurance companies and banks in this respect (Dr. Erich Kasten Agriculture Ins Consultants from Switzerland, Attorney Piotr Czublun from Law firm Czublun Trębicki) - monitoring of adverse climatic events, especially droughts and their impact on the volume of crop production (Prof. Andrzej Doroszewski of IUNG, Andries Rosema, Director of EARS from the Netherlands) - methods of claims handling and risk assessment in the fields and the possibilities of using technology in this field (Tomasz Kaminski, Independent expert from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, Janusz Pavel Vereinigte Hagel from Germany, Yan Shynkarenko from Ukraine). Furthermore, Konrad Rojewski (Polish Re) discussed the Polish agricultural insurance system and referred to the recent legislation of the European Commission determining the possibility of subsidizing agricultural insurance. Then he presented a method how reinsurers analyze the crop portfolios of their ceding companies. Second day of the seminar was dedicated to the practical classes. Participants took part in the demonstrations on field, regarding claims handling and practical risk assessment in the cultivation of rapeseed, wheat and corn in the fields belonging to the PRH Wieszczyce. The seminar was attended by about 40 people from 10 European countries (including Poland) and the Republic of South Africa. Among the participants were mostly practitioners, ie the underwriters involved in crop insurance and claims handling in their everyday work. Seminar Polish Re, both in the conference room and in the fields, as well as during breaks contributed to numerous discussions, exchanges of information and views. To such extent that the lecturers were almost inundated with questions. Polish Re regularly organizes technical seminars, supporting the development of local insurance markets. These types of seminars are highly appreciated by the participants and contribute to building a positive image of the Polish insurance market abroad. Source - http://www.polishre.com/
05.03.2014
Free Purdue Webinar: 2014 Crop Insurance Decisions
On March 6, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern free webinar hosted by Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture – 2014 Crop Insurance Decisions will be held. Purdue Economists Roman Keeney, Michael Langemeier and Jim Mintert will lead the webinar and review the 2014 crop insurance decisions faced by Midwest corn and soybean producers. Experts will provide insight regarding how to choose coverage that best fits your farming operation. They will also provide a brief overview of the new Farm Bill, focusing on the new Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) that will be available in the future. If you are interested in the topic, or have other questions in this area, please join. Click this this link to register now for the webinar. Source - http://www.agroinsurance.com
06.01.2014
New cover crop termination policy
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) will host an important national webinar on Jan. 23, to discuss the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recent efforts to assure greater uniformity and clarity on its policy related to farmers who currently grow cover crops or may grow them in the future. The webinar will address the critical question that the new policy is designed to answer: When and how can cover crops be terminated without jeopardizing valuable crop insurance coverage of the cash crops grown with them? This policy arose out of the concern that farmers planting cover crops could lose their eligibility for crop insurance coverage of the following crop. The new policy addresses this concern, using science-based cover crop management guidelines accepted across USDA agencies. The webinar will feature speakers from the USDA task force that crafted the new cover crop termination policy, and there will be ample opportunity for farmers and other webinar participants to ask questions about how the policy will work on the ground. The webinar is funded in part by the USDA Risk Management Agency through the Risk Management Education Partnership Program and will bring together four cover crop policy experts: Rob Myers, Regional Director of Extension Programs for the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program, will introduce the topic by providing background on cover crop use and the need for termination policy change. Tim Hoffmann, Director of Product Administration and Standards Division with the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA), will discuss the policy as it relates to crop insurance coverage and compliance. Norm Widman, National Agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will walk participants through the new guidelines and how they implicate existing conservation practices. Jeff Schahczenski, Agriculture Policy and Funding Research Director with the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), will kick off the extensive question and answer period by addressing some specific issues with the new policy's impact on grain farmers in the Great Plains, where wheat-fallow rotations remain a persistent practice. Ferd Hoefner, NSAC Policy Director, and Sophia Kruszewski, NSAC Policy Specialist, will be on hand to moderate questions. The Webinar will take place between 2 and 3:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 23. The first half hour will consist of presentations by the four panelists, with the remaining time allocated for a question and answer session. The webinar is primarily geared toward providing answers to questions from farmers and farm organizations, but participation is open to all, including certified crop advisors, crop insurance agents, and others. The webinar is free and accessible by visiting: https://attra.ncat.org/cover_crop Source - http://www.demingheadlight.com/
31.07.2013
Global loss adjustment in agriculture: Key principles of building an effective system
The webinar will be held on 17 of September, 2013 9am - 10:30am (Washington, DC) 4pm - 5:30pm (Kyiv, Ukraine). Register here: https://www.agriskmanagementforum.org/content/webinar-global-loss-adjustment-agriculture-key-principles-building-effective-system About the Webinar Agricultural production is a high-risk environment. Building an effective system of adjusting the risks and losses is extremely important for both insurance and banking industries. Building a well-organized loss adjustment system is a serious topic for consideration. International experience provides various examples of different approaches to loss adjustment. Some examples are more effective, some less. Although, the importance of well-organized loss adjustment system is hard to argue. We will describe the risks typology, review the loss adjustment models of different countries and observe their key elements to be used when building a new, or changing an existing system. We will also present a model that is currently being introduced and developed in Ukraine, which proved to bring effective results. The sample model that we will discuss could be used and applied in most countries of the world. Introduction When dealing with natural risks in agriculture you may find that most of such risks are hard to predict and even harder to get protection from their influence. Insurance industry offers quite a number of, probably, the most affordable and effective protection solutions from the natural hazards. Nowadays, anyone may insure the production costs or revenue, quantity and quality of the crops produced. Nevertheless, when it comes to a risk assessment issue - the better your loss adjustment system is organized, the less costs you have to spend on insurance payouts. A well-organized loss adjustment model saves not only the cost but also time on providing all necessary adjustment procedures. Related Work Global loss adjustment practice provides a lot of useful information and approaches that could be studied and applied. It should be noted, though, that not all of the models are “ready-to-use” and not all of them are applicable in different countries due to various reasons – educational, legislative, existing professional experience on the market, availability of experienced professionals, etc. The key objective of any effective loss adjustment model is its effectiveness on all operational levels. Before applying a new model, or changing the existing one, one needs to consider attracting the existing experts on the market, who can add value with their practical and theoretical experience. Another key element to consider is development of the specific model for a certain country/market needs. The algorithms the model applies should be thoroughly considered on the initial stage – working with the insurance companies, banks, agricultural producers; internal relations and interactions within the model/system structure; responsiveness of the experts and their activities coordination; standard operation procedures for the personnel; standard paperwork and processing periods; etc. The last, but not the least important issue for consideration – technical requirements for the set of instruments and appliances used to adjust the risks and losses. Building a structure No matter how developed the loss adjustment market is in this or that country, one should look not only at attracting the existing market professionals in risk mitigation, management and assessment. It is vitally important to consider training activities for bringing up a new “generation” of experts, who are trained in a new model/system environment, according its key guidelines and standards. Such an approach will always bring positive results in a long-term prospective. Constant training curricula should be developed for both theoretical and practical training, as well as, there should be a regular professional competences tests for the existing experts. This will promote experts’ professional development. Implementation and Results When the system is up and running, one should remember about constant tuning and changing it, introducing better and more effective solutions. System changes are unavoidable due to the technology progress, changes in legislation, state regulations and requirements, etc. Each season results should be thoroughly analyzed, and in case any changes are possible, they should be applied immediately. Obviously, the main changes and system tuning are applied at the initial stage of its development. Although, within a certain period of time (agricultural season, quarter, year, etc.) the system must be audited, and possible changes should be applied. Such an approach will allow that model to stay on the high level of professional competence and work effectiveness. Conclusions Looking at the existing loss adjustment models and successful global experience there might happen a false sense, that building an effective loss adjustment model/system is quick and easy. However, global practice proves this process to be long lasting and involve much time and efforts consumption for continuous development and introduction of new technology solutions to keep the system useful and effective in a long-term prospective. About the Presenter Mr. Shynkarenko has been involved in agricultural production and trading activities since 1997, when he started his career in Kirovograd (Ukraine) at the regional office of Tradigrain Ukraine LLC, as the grain logistics analyst. Building on his financial and linguistic academic background, in 2010, Mr. Shynkarenko started administering agricultural insurance and risk-management programs within the AgroInsurance Project. Currently, Yan’s areas of professional interest and development are: agricultural risk management and insurance consulting, insurance and banking (financial) underwriting for agriculture, crop/livestock insurance program administration, and market analysis.