Nigeria can build a robust resilience framework to ensure that its agricultural sector is able to cope with the shocks and stresses of climate change through weather insurance. While there is already demand for index insurance, bundling insurance with production inputs and finance can make insura...
Hellin, Jonathan
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Hansen, James
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Araba, Debisi
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[Building Agricultural Resilience through Insurance in Nigeria]
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Building Agricultural Resilience through Insurance in Nigeria
One of the main challenges of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is finding ways to promote the adoption at scale (Editor’s note: 'scaling', 'at scale' or 'to scale' are used throughout this article to mean ‘scaling-out’) of CSA practices and technologies. Climate services and insurance can constit...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Hansen, James
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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[Climate services and insurance: scaling climate smart agriculture]
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Climate services and insurance: scaling climate smart agriculture
Climate change is expected to increase the risk from extreme climate events, such as drought, flooding and heat waves, in much of the developing world (IPCC 2012, 2014). Extreme events erode farmers’ livelihoods through loss of productive assets, while the uncertainty associated with climate vari...
Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Hellin, Jonathan
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[Prospects for scaling up the contribution of index insurance to smallholder adaptation to climate risk]
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Prospects for scaling up the contribution of index insurance to smallholder adaptation to climate risk
Adaptation to anthropogenic climate change is the biggest challenge that humankind faces. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a synthesis of the state of the science, impacts, and policy, with a focus on long-term climate trends. However, the worst impacts of climate cha...
Scaling insurance to transfer climate risk from the rural poor to financial markets is vital to enhance agricultural risk management in developing countries, but insurance programs need to address several challenges in order to improve resilience at scale. A mix of stakeholder expertise is requir...
Kramer, Berber
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Hellin, Jon
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Braun, Mélody
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[Building resilience through climate risk insurance: Insights from agricultural research for development]
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Building resilience through climate risk insurance: Insights from agricultural research for development
This paper aims to better understand actors involved in the generation, translation, communication and governance of agricultural climate services and their networks in Ethiopia. To achieve these objectives, about 65 actor organizations were selected across seven regions and two city administrati...
Tesfaye, Abonesh
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Hansen, James
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Belay, Sebsib
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Actor roles and networks in agricultural climate services in Ethiopia: a social network analysis]
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Actor roles and networks in agricultural climate services in Ethiopia: a social network analysis
The review consists of a collection of case studies providing the basis for further exploring the function of index-based risk management tools towards the promotion of Climate- Smart Agriculture, through the adoption of tailored solutions by farming communities increasingly exposed to climate ch...
Adegoke, Jimmy
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Rüegg, Mark
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Hansen, James
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Cuéllar, Daniela
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Shaw, Rebecca
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Greatrex, Helen
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Hellin, Jon
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Diro, Rahel
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Review of Index-Based Insurance for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving climate risk transfer and management for Climate-Smart Agriculture — A review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance for scaling up]
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Review of Index-Based Insurance for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving climate risk transfer and management for Climate-Smart Agriculture — A review of existing examples of successful index-based insurance for scaling up
The review assesses the empirical knowledge base on gender-based differences in access, use and benefits from rural climate services to analyse gender equality challenges and identify pathways for making climate services more responsive to the needs of rural women and men. While existing research...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Huysen, Tiff van
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[Gender-responsive rural climate services: a review of the literature]
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Gender-responsive rural climate services: a review of the literature
This study estimated the economic value of agricultural climate services for strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate variability and risks in Ethiopia. Using a choice experiment approach, the study introduced a hypothetical package of improved climate services to 600 random...
Tesfaye, Abonesh
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Hansen, James
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Kassie, Girma Tesfahun
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach]
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Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach
Huysen, Tiff van
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Hansen, James
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Tall, Arame
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[Scaling up climate services for smallholder farmers: Learning from practice]
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Scaling up climate services for smallholder farmers: Learning from practice