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Index Insurance for Ethiopian Farmers
Oxfam
America has enlisted the IRI's
expertise on index insurance to design contracts for poor farmers
in a remote village in the Ethiopian highlands. The goal of the
project is to improve farmers' ability to manage drought risks and
subsequently gain better access to credit. If all goes well, the
two organizations and their local partners hope to export the
success to other villages and potentially scale up the program to
cover entire districts.
Read
more...
Recent
news and publications...
The
IRI and CATHALAC: new
IFRC and Climate Centre
associates
(RC/RC Climate Centre
newsletter)
view
Mourning and debate
after climate lab's death (Dot
Earth) view
An NGO Perspective on
Microfinance (Swiss Re
Magazine)
view
Upcoming
events and seminars...
September
19, 2008: IRI Seminar: Climate,
Forecast and Impacts Briefing.
view
Region
spotlight...
For the next
two weeks, a few of us will be in the Philippines and Indonesia to
report on our climate-risk-management work there. We'll be visiting
some of the sites where IRI and its partners work to reduce
peoples' risk to climate variability (droughts, floods, fires,
etc.). The flyer shown here describes our work with
CARE Indonesia to develop an
early-warning system for havoc-causing peatland fires. Visit
our Asia page
for more
information.
If you are in the region and interested meeting with us, please
send me an email
or visit the
trip's Google Maps page.
Current
precipitation forecast
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