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Insuring countries against natural disasters: pool rules
IFPRI, 2013This brief summarizes the key lessons that have emerged from a cost-benefit analysis of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) pool, a proposed pan-Africa drought risk pool that would insure against drought risk in Africa south of the Sahara, and discusses how these lessons can be more broadly applied to other cross-country pools.
It proposes 8 key lessons: (i) governments need to make a clear commitment to rules-based disbursement of claim payments; (ii) insurance mechanisms should focus on large infrequent payments, with other systems handling smaller, more frequent events; (iii) th ...
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/34941
Published by: IFPRI ; 2013
This brief summarizes the key lessons that have emerged from a cost-benefit analysis of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) pool, a proposed pan-Africa drought risk pool that would insure against drought risk in Africa south of the Sahara, and discusses how these lessons can be more broadly applied to other cross-country pools.
It proposes 8 key lessons: (i) governments need to make a clear commitment to rules-based disbursement of claim payments; (ii) insurance mechanisms should focus on large infrequent payments, with other systems handling smaller, more frequent events; (iii) the larger and more diversified the pool, the greater the benefits from pooling, as reinsurance will be less expensive, and less reinsurance will be needed; (iv) controlled administrative costs and cost-effective risk financing strategies are both critical to preserve the pool’s value; (v) conditions for payments should be objective and widely known; (vi) proposals should be evaluated thoroughly, drawing insights from different disciplines; (vii) catastrophe risk pools can offer members more than just cheap risk transfer products; and (viii) it is important to structure a pool correctly from the beginning.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Disaster Risk Financing, Disaster risk transfer ; Drought ; Region I - Africa
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Agriculture and adaptation in Bangladesh: Current and projected impacts of climate change
The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh, and develop recommendations to policymakers to help farmers adapt to the changes. A variety of research methods were used. When taken together, the results indicate that adaptation efforts in Bangladesh should include adjusting planting dates, using improved cultivars better suited for climate change, improving fertilizer application, exploring increased maize production, and bolstering flood and pest protection for farmers.
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Available online: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01281.pdf
T.S. Thomas ; K. Mainuddin ; C. Chiang ; International Food Policy Research Institute
Published by: IFPRI ; 2013The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh, and develop recommendations to policymakers to help farmers adapt to the changes. A variety of research methods were used. When taken together, the results indicate that adaptation efforts in Bangladesh should include adjusting planting dates, using improved cultivars better suited for climate change, improving fertilizer application, exploring increased maize production, and bolstering flood and pest protection for farmers.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Bangladesh
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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change
With agriculture being the main source of both employment and income for southern Africa’s rural population, there is great concern regarding the potential impact of climate change. This study, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), represents a comprehensive analysis of ways to foster agricultural development and food security to reduce such impacts. Several weather-based scenarios have been developed by the authors, describing how climate change may affect the region up to 2050. National contributors from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swa ...
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Available online: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/rr179.pdf
Sepo Hachigonta ; G.C. Nelson ; T.S. Thomas ; International Food Policy Research Institute
Published by: IFPRI ; 2013With agriculture being the main source of both employment and income for southern Africa’s rural population, there is great concern regarding the potential impact of climate change. This study, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), represents a comprehensive analysis of ways to foster agricultural development and food security to reduce such impacts. Several weather-based scenarios have been developed by the authors, describing how climate change may affect the region up to 2050. National contributors from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe review the scenarios and propose a variety of adaptation policies.
The opening chapter provides a regional overview, reviewing current trends, environmental status, economic, demographic, and well-being indicators, regional future scenarios with a particular focus on those showing changes in crops and finally an overview of results and recommendations for each country. Following this is a chapter on methodology, presenting technical information to better understand the results for each country. Finally, each of the eight countries are subject to an in-depth analysis, with significant amounts of supporting data provided. These country chapters discuss topics such as the policy context of agriculture production, various economic and social indicators, current climate trends, land use and agriculture overviews, scenarios for the future using various climate and crop models, and the likely impacts such scenarios imply for agriculture and vulnerability.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Southern Africa ; Region I - Africa
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
This study analyzes the range of plausible impacts of climate change by the year 2050, focusing almost entirely on crops. It builds on previous research that focused on regional and global effects of climate change. The first chapter provides a regional overview for southern Africa. Eight chapters look at the effects of climate change on eight countries in southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is intended to provide policymakers and others concerned with climate change, agriculture, and food policy with guidance on the range o ...
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/34629
Sepo Hachigonta ; Gerald C. Nelson ; T.S. Thomas ; Lindiwe Majele Sibanda ; International Food Policy Research Institute
Published by: IFPRI ; 2013This study analyzes the range of plausible impacts of climate change by the year 2050, focusing almost entirely on crops. It builds on previous research that focused on regional and global effects of climate change. The first chapter provides a regional overview for southern Africa. Eight chapters look at the effects of climate change on eight countries in southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is intended to provide policymakers and others concerned with climate change, agriculture, and food policy with guidance on the range of the impacts of climate change and some information as to how climate change might affect various regions differently. It also provides some suggestions for policies that could most help each country prepare for the future impacts of climate change.
It provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the scope of climate change as it relates to food security in southern Africa, including who will be most affected and what policymakers can do to facilitate adaptation. Augmenting the text are dozens of detailed maps that provide graphical representations of the range of food security challenges and the special threats from climate change. Using a comprehensive integrated empirical analysis, it generates information to better guide national development agendas on climate change and have suggested that policymakers should (i) incorporate climate change adaptation strategies in short- and long-term national development planning ; (ii) develop national capacity in the skills and tools needed for technical assessments, planning, and policy development in the context of climate change; (iii) promote sustainable agriculture initiatives that target vulnerable communities; and (iv) enhance investments in relevant economic sectors, in particular the agricultural sector.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)ISBN (or other code): 978-0-89629-208-6
Tags: Agroclimatology ; Climate change ; Botswana ; Lesotho ; Malawi ; Mozambique ; South Africa ; Eswatini ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe ; Region I - Africa
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Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact
Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change because of the predicted changes in temperature and precipitation, the share of labour in agriculture, and low adaptive capacity due to widespread poverty. This study uses climate data from four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Cambodia by 2050.
An evaluation of crop yields was undertaken as well as exploring potential gains from changing fertiliser levels and using irrigation to compensate for rainfall changes. A survey of 45 communes was also conducted using f ...
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Available online: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01285.pdf
T.S. Thomas ; T. Ponlok ; R. Bansok ; International Food Policy Research Institute
Published by: IFPRI ; 2013Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change because of the predicted changes in temperature and precipitation, the share of labour in agriculture, and low adaptive capacity due to widespread poverty. This study uses climate data from four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Cambodia by 2050.
An evaluation of crop yields was undertaken as well as exploring potential gains from changing fertiliser levels and using irrigation to compensate for rainfall changes. A survey of 45 communes was also conducted using focus group discussions on agricultural practices.
Results indicated that in response to extreme weather, only 7 to 16 per cent of farmers report changing crop variety and only 20 per cent of farmers report changing planting dates. The report recommends that farmers expand their capacity to adapt and concludes that there is room to increase the use of chemical fertilizers.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Climate policies ; Adaptation ; Climate change ; Cambodia
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Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation and risk management
IFPRI, 2013This report explores the challenges and opportunities for building human, organizational, and institutional capacity for more effective climate change adaptation in developing countries. It particularly focuses on climate change issues related to the agriculture sector and rural livelihoods in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali.
The report is part of a larger research project titled “Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change: potential for group-based approaches,” which is being conducted to help organizations better understand ways in which development pr ...
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The cost of adapting to climate change in Ethiopia: sector-wise and macro-economic estimates
Robinson S.; Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) ; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - EDRI, 2013This paper uses spatially-explicit analyses of climate change effects on selected key sectors of Ethiopia’s economy to estimate both sector-wise and economy-wide estimates of impacts and adaptation costs. It also provides sector-specific insights on impacts and adaptation options in agriculture, road transport, and hydropower. In particular, rapid development of Ethiopia’s hydro-potential, upgrading of the road design standards, and gradual diversification of the economy away from the more climate vulnerable sectors are likely to be important elements of any climate-resilient development strat ...
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ESSP Working Paper, 53. The cost of adapting to climate change in Ethiopia: sector-wise and macro-economic estimates
This paper uses spatially - explicit analyses of climate change effects on selected key sectors of Ethiopia’s economy to analyse both sector-wise and economy-wide estimates of impacts and adaptation costs. Using four models to bracket the uncertainty surrounding future climate outcomes, the paper finds that by 2050 climate change could cause GDP to be eight to ten per cent smaller than under a no-climate change baseline; it could induce a two-fold increase in variability of growth in agriculture; and it would affect more severely the poor and certain parts of the country. The paper also finds ...
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Water for wealth and food security: supporting farmer-driven investments in agricultural water management
IWMI, 2012This report addresses the effective use of available water as a way to help to improve productivity and reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It combines the practical improved water management systems and approaches, including the reduction of risks associated with climate variability through environmental risks monitoring. It documents the benefits of irrigation already been invested by farmers in small-scale irrigation, and provides practical recommendations and tools for governments, the private sector, donors and organizations to effectively support these farmer-led initiatives to improve ...
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