Investment in national climate services must address trade-offs between meeting context-specific
farmer needs and providing cost-effective services at scale. In the context of an ongoing
national-scale agricultural climate service initiative in Rwanda, we discuss approaches used to
address five s...
Hansen, James
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Nsengiyumva, Gloriose
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[Can rural climate services meet context-specific needs, and still be scalable? Experience from Rwanda]
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Can rural climate services meet context-specific needs, and still be scalable? Experience from Rwanda
The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) enables vulnerable sectors and populations to better manage climate variability and adapt to climate change. How? By developing and incorporating science-based climate information into planning, policy and practice. The GFCS places the decision con...
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
Dr. James Hansen discusses how agriculture is being rediscovered by the global policy community as a key driver for more sustainable economic development. To escape this persistent poverty trap, Hansen argues that farmers have only their labour, their intelligence and their land at their disposal...