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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Asia: Beyond pilot evaluations and models (Workshop Proceedings) by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The event was organized to bring together key stakeholders to discuss and exchange learnings in order to achieve the following objectives: 1) identify scalable CSA options and methods of scaling them, especially those related to technologies, climate information services, and insurance; 2) identify key selling points of CSA and its value for banks and development partners; and 3) establish ways to make CSA R4D responsive to upscaling and big investment in Asia.…”
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CGIAR Center Directors Committee Minutes, Presiding Chair: G. Hawtin by CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…Under committee reports, the minutes record a CDC decision that centers will provide 0.2% of budget to PARC/Future Harvest, agreement on AIARC policy changes with respect to insurance for dependents and change of service provider and discuss the report on ecoregional initiatives by Michael Collinson. …”
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CGIAR Center Directors Committee Minutes, Presiding Chair: J. Williams by CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…The Minutes also contain a report of the Information Officers meeting, the positive feedback on the CGIAR newsletter as a means of informing people from diverse backgrounds of the CG’s activities, a report of the Benefits Committee with information on group insurance plans and retirement plans, a report on the progress of the CGNET project and a report of the Fund Raising Committee on matters related to the donors day initiative, strategy for Saudi Arabia, IFAR and blocked currencies and center contribution to the fund raising unit.…”
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Small ruminant production in smallholder and pastoral/extensive farming systems in Kenya by Kosgey, I.S., Rowlands, G.J., Arendonk, Johan A.M. van, Baker, R.L.

“…The survey demonstrated the relative importance to the farmers of tangible benefits of farming sheep and goats (e.g., regular cash income, meat, manure and, in the case of goats, milk) versus intangible benefits (e.g., the role of small ruminants as an insurance against emergencies). Regular cash income and an insurance against emergencies were the highest priorities. …”
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Regional Policy Forum: Opportunities for a Climate-Smart Food System in the Philippines by Baruah, Sampriti

“…Officials from NEDA, DA-Agriculture and Training Institute, Department of Agrarian Reform, PCAARRD, Philippines Rice Research Institute, Philippines Crop Insurance Corporation, Bureau of Plant Industry, DA- RFO 3, DA-RFO 8, UP Resilience Institute, along with several other International and National organizations working on the above topic were present in this program.…”
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Protocol for the collection of leaf area index (LAI) for yield estimation by Mathieu, Renaud, Quicho, Emma, Satapathy, Sushree

“…This work builds on the Remote sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies (RIICE, http://www.riice.org/) co-developed by IRRI and implemented in South and Southeast Asian countries. …”
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Risks and farmers’ investment in productive assets in Nigeria by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…The majority of farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) lack the means to mitigate the impact of risks associated with rainfall and commodity prices due to capital constraints and the imperfect insurance market in these countries. Because most SSA farmers are risk averse, they may be willing to invest in productive assets that can mitigate the impacts of such risks if their capital constraints are relaxed through external financial assistance. …”
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Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Community-based financial organizations: Access to finance for the poorest by Ritchie, Anne

“…Community-based financial organizations (CBFOs) are user-owned and -operated groups that provide mainly saving and lending services but may also offer other financial services such as insurance. These independent organizations are based in local communities, with local governance and management. …”
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Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Credit Risk Management in Financing Agriculture by Wenner, Mark

“…In developing countries, farmers also lack access to both modern instruments of risk management—such as agricultural insurance, futures contracts, or guarantee funds—and ex post emergency government assistance. …”
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Urban women: balancing work and childcare by Engle, Patrice L.

“…Innovative strategies could include support for parental childcare cooperatives, social insurance to enable mothers or fathers to stay home after the birth of a child, childcare linked to schools, and even the involvement of elders in childcare...." -- from Text…”
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Income-augmenting interventions and food self-sufficiency for enhancing food consumption among the poor by Reutlinger, Shlomo

“…Some interventions, such as unemployment insurance and public works programs, are clearly targeted to benefit specific disadvantaged groups. …”
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Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs by Herrero, Mario, Thornton, Philip K., Gerber, Pierre J., Reid, Robin S.

“…Livestock are a global resource of significant benefits to society in the form of food, income, nutrients, employment, insurance, traction, clothing and others. In the process of providing these benefits, livestock can use a significant amount of land, nutrients, feed, water and other resources and generate 18% of anthropogenic global greenhouse gases. …”
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Scaling Roadmap: Site-Specific Fertilizer Recommendations (SSFR) through NextGen Advisory Platform in Ethiopia by Ewell, Hanna, Tibebe, Degefie, Mesfin, Tewodros, Makonnen, Brook T., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Solomon, Dawit, Girvetz, Evan

“…. - Responsible scaling bundles SSFR with credit and insurance; embeds in HaFAS and extension (FRED); uses dashboards and feedback; 2030 targets: 50% reach and +30% yields.…”
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The concept and calculation of net benefits from goats in Ethiopian smallholdings by Ayalew, W., Rischkowsky, Barbara A., King, J.M.

“…Net benefits of livestock to a householdare calculated by aggregating the value added by physical products (meat, manure, milk) to socioeconomicbenefits (saved interest/premium on credit/insurance) and deduction of purchasedinputs. The result is expressed as net benefit per unit of the most limiting resources: land, labour,and flock metabolic size. …”
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Wavelet-based spatio-temporal fusion of observed rainfall with NDVI in Sri Lanka by Chemin, Yann H.

“…This research can strengthen various types of research and applications such as ungauged basins research, regional climate modeling, food security early warning systems, agricultural insurance systems, etc.…”
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Smallholder dairy production and markets: a comparison of production systems in Zambia, Kenya and Sri Lanka by Moll, H.A.J., Staal, Steven J., Ibrahim, Mohamed N.M.

“…Attention is given to the valuation of marketed and non-marketed products and the intangible benefits of livestock in insurance, financing and status display. The comprehensive and comparative analysis of the production systems shows the direct relationship between type and intensity of dairy production and the presence or absence of markets for milk and other products, services and employment. …”
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Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives by Chantarat, S., Turvey, C.G., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B.

“…We provide a general framework for derivative contracts, especially in the context of index insurance and famine catastrophe bond, and show how they can be used to complement existing tools and facilities in drought risk financing through a risk-layering strategy. …”
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Stochastic wealth dynamics and risk management among a poor population by Lybbert, T.J., Barrett, Christopher B., Desta, S., Coppock, D. Layne

“…Past studies may have conflated costly self-insurance with stocking rate externalities. Biophysical shocks move households between multiple dynamic wealth equilibria – the lowest suggesting a poverty trap – according to nonconvex path dynamics. …”
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CGIAR Center Directors Committee Minutes, Presiding Chair: L. Stifel by CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…The minutes also record reports from Finance & Administration Officers Meeting, the Benefits Committee on the retirement plan redesign, Airco litigation and group insurance; the Fund Raising Committee, Human Resource Development Committee, Preservation and Documentation Committee and CD-Rom technology, the Sustainability Committee, the Public Awareness Committee and the Africa Committee. …”
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Field scale spatial wheat yield forecasting system under limited field data availability by integrating crop simulation model with weather forecast and satellite remote sensing by Dhakar, Rajkumar, Sehgal, Vinay Kumar, Chakraborty, Debasish, Sahoo, Rabi Narayan, Mukherjee, Joydeep, Ines, Amor V.M., Soora Naresh Kumar, Shirsath, Paresh B., Roy, Somnath Baidya

“…CONTEXT: An accurate crop yield forecast with sufficient lead time is critical for various applications, such as crop management, resources mobilization, agri-commodity trading, crop insurance, etc. Accurate yield forecasting well ahead of harvest at field scale with minimal field input data remains a challenge. …”
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