In much of the developing world, climate change is expected to increase the risk from extreme weather events, and scaling insurance is vital to enhance agricultural risk management and adaptation among the rural poor. Insurance program impacts however too often claim impacts based on the number o...
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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[Looking beyond loss and damage: Reframing insurance to promote adaptation and resilience]
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Looking beyond loss and damage: Reframing insurance to promote adaptation and resilience
Our belief that index insurance holds significant potential to reduce climate risk for small-holder farmers through its protection and promotion roles, significantly improving the welfare of farm households, is why we are bringing together experts from across the insurance, agriculture and climat...
Hellin, Jonathan
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Hansen, James W.
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Rose, Alison
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Braun, Mélody
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[Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation]
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Scaling up agricultural adaptation through insurance: Bringing together insurance, big data and agricultural innovation
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