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Fighting Poverty with Index Insurance
Index insurance remains a promising new tool to help alleviate poverty by reducing the impacts of climate shocks in the developing world. It may even increase the poor's resiliency to climate change. In October, IRI co-hosted a workshop to discuss the technical challenges that currently preclude the use of index insurance on a large scale. We share here some of the experiences and resources to come out of that meeting.
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Recent news, publications and other notables...
Djibouti: Pastoralists way of life at risk (East Africa Forum). view
Google.org to Help Scientists Forecast Disease Outbreaks (allAfrica.com). view
Public health and weather services-climate information for the health sector
(Journal of the World Met. Organization). view
Google grant to researchers aims at climate-connected disease (Biologynews.net). view
Malaria in the Americas Forum: Overcoming the Challenges of a Borderless Disease (PAHO). view
Google.Org Spends $14 Million to Battle Pandemics (WIRED Science). view
Pandemics: Google takes on real viruses (Guardian U.K.). view
Upcoming events and seminars...
November 25, 2008: IRI Seminar: The Muted Precipitation Increase in Global Warming Simulations: A Surface Evaporation Perspective view
December 18, 2008: IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing. view
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