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Youth entrepreneurship in agriculture and rural development: Nigeria by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Zhou, Yuan

“…These include land, credit, farm inputs, agronomic and vocational training, insurance, and lucrative markets. Addressing these challenges requires answers to some key questions: Which factors drive the success of youth entrepreneurs in developing countries? …”
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Farmers' preference for farming: Evidence from a nationally representative farm survey in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…They also have relatively lower access to credit, insurance, and information, and are weakly integrated with social networks such as self‐help groups and farmers' organizations. …”
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Institutional innovations towards gender equity in agrobiodiversity management: collective action in Kerala, South India by Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna

“…The maintenance of crop diversity on farmers’ fields in hot spots of plant genetic diversity is considered a ”global life insurance policy“ in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 2001:1). …”
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The potential cost of a failed Doha Round by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…We find that this trade agreement could prevent the potential loss of US$ 809 bn of trade, and could therefore act as an efficient multilateral insurance scheme against the adverse consequences of “beggar-thy-neighbor” trade policies.…”
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Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis by Simutowe, Esau, Ngoma, Hambulo, Thierfelder, Christian

“…These results signify the need to integrate CSA with other complementary measures such as access to extension services, markets, climate-related risk insurance, and finance to improve food security and reduce poverty. …”
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Empowering farmers through a human-centered advisory approach: Enhanced support yields tangible benefits by Desta, Lulseged Tamene, Mesfin, Tewodros, Degefie, Tibebe, Ebrahim, Mohammed, Abera, Wuletawu, Endrias, Abrhame

“…Partnering the private sector, LERSHA , we developed integrated solutions that link credit and insurance with advisory services, fostering evidence-based practices. …”
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Crowdsourcing initiatives and the diffusion of information: Experimental evidence from livestock keepers in Kenya by Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Lepariyo, Watson Saewua, Baraza, Meshack, Ochenje, Ibrahim

“…We found that the KAZNET initiative improved access to information, increased the adoption of livestock management practices and use of inputs (livestock medicine and insurance), and shaped decisions about the choice of markets for selling livestock. …”
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Changing climate adaptation strategies of Boran pastoralists in southern Ethiopia by Hurst, M., Jensen, Nathaniel D., Pedersen, S.H., Sharma, A., Zambriski, J.A.

“…This report contains information on a rapid field assessment of Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia to: (1) gauge local communities’ perceptions of the need for local climate change adaptation strategies and their degree of satisfaction with existing interventions; (2) identify emerging climate risk adaptation strategies; and (3) evaluate how existing and new strategies including efforts by non-governmental organizations and the Ethiopian government might complement or be compromised by index-based livestock insurance (IBLI). Researchers found that the Boran perceive changes in the frequency and intensity of drought conditions over the last several decades. …”
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Participatory Action Research on Climate Risk Management, Bangladesh by Braun, M., Saroar M

“…The study evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of current coping strategies and assessed the potential of an index-based insurance scheme, designed diversification and better information products to improve adaptive capacity. …”
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The determinants of livestock prices in Niger by Fafchamps, M., Gavian, S.

“…Not only does livestock make an important contribution to rural incomes and export earnings in the Sahel, it is also kept as insurance against weather risk. Fluctuations in livestock prices can therefore trigger food entitlement failures. …”
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Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture by Cooper, Peter J.M., Cappiello S, Vermeulen, Sonja J., Campbell, Bruce M., Zougmoré, Robert B., Kinyangi, James

“…The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial aim), climate risk management through insurance, weather information services and social protection, and agricultural initiatives that have a strong link to climate change adaptation and mitigation. …”
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Options for adapting to climate change in livestock-dominated farming systems in the greater horn of Africa by Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Mude, Andrew G., Steeg, Jeannette van de, Kinyangi, James

“…Index- based livestock insurance, for example, offers innovative opportunities for protecting farmers’ assets, while diversification in the arid- and semi-arid regions might turn into economically viable livelihood strategies. …”
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The need to conserve farm animal genetic resources in Africa: Should policy makers be concerned? by Wollny, C.B.A.

“…Objectives for the conservation of a local farm animal population and opportunities to utilise its diversity to meet present and future market demands, to serve as an insurance against environmental changes such as changes in production, socio-economic, and cultural conditions can be identified for research and development. …”
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Capacity Development Strategy for Phase II (2017-2022): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…In Phase I and the Extension Phase CCAFS has undertaken capacity needs assessments at broad-ranging national levels and at more specific levels of particular technological and institutional innovations (e.g. index insurance and GHG inventories). CCAFS is committed to improving its monitoring and evaluation of capacity development outcomes and impacts during Phase II, for example through rigorous ex-post impact assessments.…”
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Really effective (for 15% of the men): Lessons in understanding and addressing user needs in climate services from Mali by Carr, Edward R., Onzere, Sheila N.

“…The ongoing development and refinement of climate service-based tools, such as weather based index insurance, provides opportunities to stabilize and protect people’s livelihoods by establishing new forms of safety nets, strengthening existing safety nets, and supporting the general improvement of risk management mechanisms (Carter et al., 2014, Hess and Syroka, 2005, Jensen et al., 2015, Mburu et al., 2015). …”
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Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) et Systeme d'information Climatique (SIC): Formation pour le Secteur Privé by Siagbe, Golli, Derenoncourt, Marie Ena, Chabot, Philippe, Jaquet, Stéphanie

“…Value chain actors (producers, processors, aggregators) and financial actors (banks, impact investors, insurance companies) that finance the agricultural sector participated in the workshop.…”
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Polycentric governance model for transformative adaptation in Morocco: Transformative adaptation options by Amarnath, Giriraj, Ait El Mekki, Abdelkader, Amarasinghe, Upali, Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria, Brouziyne, Youssef

“…Adoption of a multi-task climate insurance program, 4). Conversion of vulnerable crop area to crop with high climate adaptability, 4). …”
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Risk Contingent Credit: A stakeholder engagement to inform project expansion in Kenya by Timu, Anne G., Shee, Apurba, You, Liangzhi, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian, Ghosh, Aniruddha, Chilambe, Pedro Anglaze

“…Recent research has shown that transferring some of the climate-related risks to the insurance market in exchange for a payout can shield the welfare of smallholders from the adverse effects of extreme weather conditions, while agricultural financing can help farmers to acquire and adopt agricultural inputs such as improved seed varieties, fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. …”
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Climate shocks, vulnerability, resilience and livelihoods in rural Zambia by Ngoma, Hambulo, Finn, Arden, Kabisa, Mulako

“…These findings imply a need to support scaling of climate-smart agricultural technologies and to invest in risk mitigation strategies such as weather-indexed insurance and targeted social cash transfers.…”
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Protocol for the collection of field data for rice mapping by Mathieu, Renaud, Murugesan, Deiveegan, Quicho, Emma, Raviz, Jeny

“…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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