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
Many opportunities to improve agricultural resilience to a variable and changing climate depend on access to high-quality local climate records and are constrained by data gaps. Addressing data quality of meteorological station observations. The ENACTS approach builds capacity of a National Mete...
Dinku, Tufa
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Damen, Beau
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Sheinkman, Michael
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.
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
The development of sustainable climate services is acknowledged as a key step in building climate-smart practices. Further, it has been noted that successful and sustainable climate services have structures of governance that are coherent and transparent for the stakeholders involved. To facilita...
Kruczkiewicz, Andrew
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Sayeed, Syed
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Hansen, James
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Furlow, John
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Rose, Alison
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Dinh, Dannie
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[Review of Climate Services Governance Structures: Case Studies from Mali, Jamaica, and India]
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Review of Climate Services Governance Structures: Case Studies from Mali, Jamaica, and India