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In the last few years, the first microinsurance schemes for low-income peasants were introduced in Bolivia. Parts of … the rural population have been able to insure crops like maize, potatoes or grapes. In Bolivia, as in other countries, a … implementation of two agricultural microinsurance schemes in Tarija, a department in the south of Bolivia. It looks at the unfolding …
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This paper reviews the role of Social Protection and Labor in supporting both climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. The Climate Crisis is impacting the poor and vulnerable disproportionally, both as a consequence of climate shocks and through the distributional impacts of climate mitigation...
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This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...
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Socio-ecological transitions need to address the pressing challenges of our time, namely climate change mitigation and social development – including poverty and inequality reduction – in a complementary manner. The importance of achieving resilient and sustainable societies has been made...
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