Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency
This policy brief argues that South Africa’s G20 Presidency offers a pivotal opportunity to elevate crop insurance as a core instrument for strengthening climate resilience across Africa. As droughts, floods and weather variability intensify, climate risks increasingly threaten smallholder farmers w...
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South African Institute of International Affairs
2025
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| author | Kramer, Berber Hill, Ruth Vargas |
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| description | This policy brief argues that South Africa’s G20 Presidency offers a pivotal opportunity to elevate crop insurance as a core instrument for strengthening climate resilience across Africa. As droughts, floods and weather variability intensify, climate risks increasingly threaten smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fed production, undermining livelihoods and regional food security. The brief highlights crop insurance as a practical risk-transfer mechanism that can safeguard incomes, stabilise food supply, and protect vulnerable households from climate-related shocks. It outlines how crop insurance aligns closely with key G20 working groups—Environment & Climate Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Agriculture—each emphasizing adaptation, inclusive risk-sharing and resilient food systems. To realise this potential, the brief calls for investment-enabling policies, innovative financing suited to smallholders, and stronger integration of insurance within climate-risk management strategies, positioning crop insurance as a scalable and actionable priority for South Africa’s G20 agenda. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1764002025-12-03T19:19:51Z Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency Kramer, Berber Hill, Ruth Vargas crop insurance climate resilience policies agriculture risk transfer extreme weather events livelihoods food security This policy brief argues that South Africa’s G20 Presidency offers a pivotal opportunity to elevate crop insurance as a core instrument for strengthening climate resilience across Africa. As droughts, floods and weather variability intensify, climate risks increasingly threaten smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fed production, undermining livelihoods and regional food security. The brief highlights crop insurance as a practical risk-transfer mechanism that can safeguard incomes, stabilise food supply, and protect vulnerable households from climate-related shocks. It outlines how crop insurance aligns closely with key G20 working groups—Environment & Climate Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Agriculture—each emphasizing adaptation, inclusive risk-sharing and resilient food systems. To realise this potential, the brief calls for investment-enabling policies, innovative financing suited to smallholders, and stronger integration of insurance within climate-risk management strategies, positioning crop insurance as a scalable and actionable priority for South Africa’s G20 agenda. 2025-09-03 2025-09-08T18:56:24Z 2025-09-08T18:56:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176400 en https://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.6wkxs9tng Open Access South African Institute of International Affairs Kramer, Berber; and Hill, Ruth. 2025. Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency. SAIIA Policy Brief 16. Johannesburg, South Africa. South African Institute of International Affairs. https://saiia.org.za/research/crop-insurance-for-climate-resilience-priorities-for-south-africas-g20-presidency/ |
| spellingShingle | crop insurance climate resilience policies agriculture risk transfer extreme weather events livelihoods food security Kramer, Berber Hill, Ruth Vargas Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title | Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title_full | Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title_fullStr | Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title_short | Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency |
| title_sort | crop insurance for climate resilience priorities for south africa s g20 presidency |
| topic | crop insurance climate resilience policies agriculture risk transfer extreme weather events livelihoods food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176400 |
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