Climate change is likely to lead to increased water scarcity in the coming decades and to changes in patterns of precipitation. The result will be more short-term crop failures and long-term production declines. Improved soil management is key to climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. ...
Hellin, Jon
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López Ridaura, Santiago
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[Soil and water conservation on Central American hillsides: if more technologies is the answer, what is the question?]
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Soil and water conservation on Central American hillsides: if more technologies is the answer, what is the question?
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
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
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
Motivation
Fair distribution of benefits from index insurance matters. Lack of attention to social equity can reinforce inequalities and undermine the potential index insurance holds as a tool for climate risk management that is also pro‐poor.
Purpose
The aims are to: (i) examine social equity c...
Fisher, Eleanor
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Hellin, Jon
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Greatrex, Helen
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Jensen, Nathaniel D.
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[Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity]
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Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity
Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists, particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the extent and the persistence of rural poverty in these environments. Stochastic shocks erode smallholder farmers' long...
Hansen, James
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Hellin, Jon
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Fisher, Eleanor
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Lamanna, Christine
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Etten, Jacob van
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Rose, Alison
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction]
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Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction