Nuno Meira, Author at Wikifarmer

Nuno Meira

Advisor on Climate Smart Agriculture and Agricultural Insurance

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Nuno Meira is an Agricultural Engineer with a 25-year career in agriculture, CSA+biodiversity, agricultural risk management, agricultural insurance/reinsurance/microinsurance, and International Economic Development & Cooperation developed, on-location, over 7 different countries (Portugal, Netherlands, Spain, Senegal, Ukraine, Philippines, Germany), and with experience as well in South America. Nuno Meira has cumulative experience in the private sector as an International Agricultural Reinsurance Broker having been the former EMEA Agricultural Specialist at “Guy Carpenter” (“Marsh & McLennan Group of Companies”), and in International Development & Cooperation, and agricultural research organizations (ILO, IFC/World Bank, CIM/GIZ, IsF/Frankfurt School of Finance, CGIAR), on business development, change management and innovation, agricultural insurance/reinsurance/microinsurance, capacity building of organizations, vocational training, funding, and writing of proposals. He is also a member of the IAPWE international association of professional writers and editors based in NY.

Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management

Agricultural Insurance – A Financial Tool for Farmers to Offset and Manage Risk

Agricultural insurance focuses mainly on 4 key lines of agricultural production: crops, forestry, livestock/bloodstock (high value animals such as thoroughbreds), and aquaculture (also known as fish farming). It can also […]

Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management

Insurance – A Financial Tool to Offset and Manage Risk

Insurance is a financial risk transfer mechanism based on the principle of an Insurer (or risk carrier, to whom the Insured transfers part or the totality of a risk – […]

Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management

Risk Management Approaches in Agriculture

Farmers may reduce the impact of a hypothetical future sudden, accidental, and unforeseen shock by systematically identifying, analyzing, and controlling production, operational, market/price, financial, technology, regulatory, infrastructure, and human or […]

Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management

Agriculture and Risk

Introduction Around 10.000 years ago man started progressively transitioning from widespread hunter-gathering nomadism to fixed settlements in many regions of the world1. Controlling where, how, and when to secure regular […]