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Improving Resilience to Climate Impacts in Mali through Improved Availability, Access and Use of Climate Information: Dialogue with Users por Nenkam, Andree M., Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.

“…This workshop was a result of collaboration between the CCAFS-funded CASCAID project (Capacitating African Smallholder with Climate Services and Insurance Development) led by ICRISAT and ICRAF, and the USAID-funded project Building Mali Meteo’s Capacity to Deliver Improved Climate Services, led by IRI. …”
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Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction por Hansen, James, Hellin, Jonathan, Rosenstock, Todd S., Fisher, Eleanor, Cairns, Jill E., Stirling, Clare M., Lamanna, Christine, Etten, Jacob van, Rose, Alison, Campbell, Bruce M.

“…Institutional interventions such as index-based insurance and social protection through adaptive safety nets play a complementary role in enabling farmers to manage risk, overcome risk-related barriers to adoption of improved technologies and practices, and protect their assets against the impacts of extreme climatic events. …”
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Skadeförekomst hos häst relaterat till olika typ och mängd av utevistelse por Odlander, Jeanette

“…That material, based on the results of 507 returned questionnaires from owners of horses in a Swedish insurance company, included questions about paddock/pasture confinement. …”
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Privata markägares syn på vindskadeförebyggande åtgärder por Petersen, Axel af

“…The fact that the land owners in Småland thought that they should manage their forest differently in the future and that they thought that wind damage insurance is necessary was probably dependent on the fact that their forests was recently struck by wind damage.…”
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Utvärdering av möjligheten att införa en plattform för djurägarinitierad dödsfallsrapportering av hundar samt därpå baserad forskning och avelsurval por Norén, Eva

“…Information was gathered mainly by interviewing people at the SKC, animal clinics, insurance companies as well as breeders and dog owners. …”
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Bhutan’s Forests through the Framework of Ecosystem Services: Rapid Assessment in Three Forest Types por Sears, R., Choden, K., Dorji, T., Dukpa, D., Phuntsho, S., Rai, P.B., Wangchuk, J., Baral, H.

“…Forests in mountain ecosystems provide a diversity of services and goods in mountain landscapes, and the immediate utility of the forest to upstream residents must be balanced with the insurance forests provide for downstream residents in the form of, especially, the services of water regulation and soil stabilization. …”
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Climate change adaptation options to inform planning of agriculture and food systems in The Gambia: A systematic approach for stocktaking por Segnon, Alcade C, Zougmoré, Robert B., Green, Rosemary, Ali, Zakari, Carr, Tony W, Houessionon, Prosper, M'boob, Sulayman, Scheelbeek, Pauline

“…We found that many of the documented options, such as climate-resilient crop varieties, crop diversification, climate information use, and weather indexed-based insurance have the potential to increase agricultural productivity and income while building resilience to climate change. …”
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Impact of shamba shape up and iShamba on livestock and climate resilience por Vyas, Shalika, Burra, Dharani Dhar, Calvin, Kiprop, Kirwa, Lilian, Rottmann, Sophie, Ramirez Villegas, Julian

“…Improvements in financial literacy were also notable, with 70% of farmers reporting enhanced understanding of loans and insurance, and 35% using financial services for the first time. …”
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United States: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications por Blandford, David, Orden, David

“…The main notified components of the U.S. support policies for agricultural producers include fixed direct payments, disaster assistance, and environmental payments in the green box; market price supports for dairy and sugar and substantial price-linked, loan-rate-related subsidy expenditures in the product-specific aggregate measure of support (AMS) category; and non product-specific support notified as de minimis, including crop market loss assistance payments, countercyclical payments, and crop and revenue insurance subsidies. The United States’ notification of total AMS has not exceeded the Uruguay Round commitment of $19.1 billion. …”
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Linking weather and climate information services (WCIS) to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices por Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe, Tinashe Lindel Dirwai, Cuthbert Taguta, Aidan Senzanje, Abera, Wuletawu, Ajit Govid, Dossou-Yovo, Elliott, Aynekulu, Ermias, Chimonyo, Vimbayi Grace Petrova

“…The dominant CSA practices used by farmers were carbon-smart (e.g., composting), water-smart practices (improved varieties, irrigation, RWH), weather-smart practices (IPM & crop insurance), and nitrogen-smart practices (organic fertiliser, crop diversification). …”
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Seasonal maize yield forecasting in South and East African countries using hybrid earth observation models por Kenduiywo, Benson Kipkemboi, Miller, Sara

“…This information is useful for NFBS bulletins forecasts, design and certification of maize insurance contracts, and estimation of loss and damage in the advent of climate justice.…”
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Enhancing maize resilience through bundled climate-smart solutions across Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACCs) in Ethiopia: From pilot implementation to scalable impact por Dejene, Sintayehu W., Alemayehu, Sintayehu, Tadesse, Terefe, Tesfaye, Lidya, Gebre, Liyuneh, Tegegne, Getachew, Chilambe, Pedro, Girvetz, Evan

“…Adoption was supported through a Climate-Smart Credit Scoring (CSCS) Tool, enabling 6,000 farmers to be profiled, 1,800 shortlisted for finance, and 600 to access credit and insurance, facilitating timely input use, enhanced CSA adoption, and strengthened resilience to climatic and economic shocks. …”
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Policy engagement report: Institutionalizing multifunctional landscapes in Mbire District, Zimbabwe por Matangi, Dorcas, Nohayi, Ngowenani, Ngoma, Hambulo

“…The discussions also emphasized inclusive participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups, as well as the introduction of livestock insurance and local processing industries to link conservation with livelihoods. …”
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Analysis of multi-temporal SPOT NDVI images for small-scale land-use mapping por Bie, C.A.J.M. de, Khan, M.R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Venus, V., Weir, M.J.C., Smaling, E.M.A.

“…Land-use information is required for a number of purposes such as to address food security issues, to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources and to support decisions regarding food trade and crop insurance. Suitable land-use maps often either do not exist or are not readily available. …”
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Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for coffee communities and ecosystems in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico por Schroth, Götz, Läderach, Peter R.D., Dempewolf, Jan, Philpott, Stacy M., Haggar, Jeremy P., Eakin, Hallie, Castillejos, Teresa, García Moreno, Jaime, Soto-Pinto, Lorena, Hernández, Ricardo, Eitzinger, Anton, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…A comprehensive strategy to sustain the biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods of the Sierra Madre in the face of climate change should include the promotion of biodiversity friendly coffee growing and processing practices including complex shade which can offer some hurricane protection and product diversification; payments for forest conservation and restoration from existing government programs complemented by private initiatives; diversification of income sources to mitigate risks associated with unstable environmental conditions and coffee markets; integrated fire management; development of markets that reward sustainable land use practices and forest conservation; crop insurance programs that are accessible to smallholders; and the strengthening of local capacity for adaptive resource management.…”
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Closing the Gap between Climate Information Producers and Users: Assessment of Needs and Uptake in Senegal por Ouédraogo, Issa, Diouf, Ndeye Seynabou, Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Ndiaye, Ousmane, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Recommendations that will improve and sustain the governance system of CIS in Senegal and the rest of West Africa include the involvement of private sectors in the chain of production, delivery and training, and the inciting of producers to largely subscribe to the weather‐based index insurance.…”
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Idiopatisk epilepsi : en fallstudie por Påhlsson, Emma

“…Epilepsy is a common neurological condition in dogs, being a common reason for death in the statistics from the insurance company Agria in Sweden. Among the different types of epilepsy, idiopathic epilepsy (IE) is the most common and is characterized by the fact that a veterinary examination does not reveal a cause for the seizures. …”

Subsistence and semi-subsistence farms in Hungary por Süveg, Melinda

“…In particular, reducing SSFs’ transaction costs by providing credit, insurance and large enough subsidies could aid market-oriented SSFs to develop to be profit maximising producers.…”
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Village Midline Study: Vaishali, Bihar State, India por Jagannath, Pratyaya, Kargwal, Kanchan, Sharma, Namrata, Prasad, Sanjay, Nagpal, Mansi, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun

“…The main focus of the food security-related organizations reported are on dairy production and marketing, access to inputs, crop production, food distribution, and weather-based crop insurance. There is virtually no permanent institution working solely on food security, however those identified, support aspects of food security, such as ensuring food availability for households. …”
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Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania por Balana, Bedru, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Haile, Beliyou, Hagos, Fitsum, Yimam, Seid, Ringler, Claudia

“…Based on these findings, we suggest that policies should focus on addressing both supply- and demand-side credit constraints to credit access, including through targeted interventions to reduce risk, such as crop insurance, and to strengthen the gender sensitivity of credit policies.…”
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