Agricultural Risk Transfer

Special Thanks

Special thanks go to Reto Zihlmann, a master student in agronomy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, who helped me to generate most of the plots. I am also very grateful to Arnaud de Beaucaron (president of AIAG) and Dr Tom Zacharias (president of NCIS) for writing the foreword of Agricultural Risk Transfer and for all the encouragement. I wish to express my appreciation to my colleagues from the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), particularly Vijay Kalovakanda and Utako Saoshiro, for the understanding they showed over my limited ability to participate in field missions during the time writing the book. My sincere gratitude goes to Wiley as the publisher of Agricultural Risk Transfer and specifically, Emily Paul (project editor), Gemma Valler (commissioning editor), Gladys Ganaden (editorial executive), and Sharmila Srinivasan (production editor) for the great support and input to the manuscript.

Last but not least, special thanks go to my wife and children, who have lived with the book for two years, and to our golden retriever, who had shorter walks than usual at times.