Oxfam America and The Rockefeller Foundation announced a weather index insurance payout of unprecedented scale directly to poor farmers. Thanks to a groundbreaking new program that relies on advanced satellite technology, more than 12,200 farmers in 45 villages in Northern Ethiopia will benefit from drought protection. As a result of this year’s drought conditions each […]
This is the ninth of ten interviews with climate and development experts conducted at the International Conference on Climate Services, held at Columbia University in October 2011. Guy Brassuer is the Director of Germany’s Climate Service Center. In this interview, he discusses the need to bring together many different experts to help define climate services and its […]
This is the seventh of ten interviews with climate and development experts conducted at the International Conference on Climate Services, held at Columbia University in October 2011. Jean-Cristophe Amado is a Risk Manager at Acclimatise North America. He says climate services can’t just be about providing data; they need to focus on building trust with user […]