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Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… offer protection to these farmers a new form of insurance, known as index-based insurance, is gaining currency, particularly in the developing world. It pays out according to a predetermined index for asset and investment losses, such as the loss of agricultural …
Blog, 16 July 2015
The politics at play in Vietnam’s food system
… in the ‘quality and safety’ indicator of the Global Food Security Index . Vietnam’s score was the best of the eight countries that were …
Blog, 16 September 2020
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Flooding, homes and loss: insurance as a risk-transfer mechanism in Vietnam
… to help communities cope with the costs of intensifying floods is index-based insurance. In a recent study, 66 per cent of respondents … This means that there is a clear role for government involvement in index-based insurance, ranging from promoting flood preparations to …
Publication, 01 April 2015
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Food and feeding ecology of hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) in Bangladesh’s Meghna River basin
… at various stages in the life cycle using Ivlev’s ‘electivity index’. … 16609IIED … 16609IIED … Kaisir Mohammad Moinul Hasan … Zoarder …
Publication, 01 January 2016
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
… risk-prone areas are taking out insurance at the county-level.  The Index Based Livestock Insurance scheme was developed in 2009 by the … Insurance and Risk Management Program, which provides yield index insurance for semi-commercial maize and wheat farmers, with …
Blog, 06 June 2017
Will climate pledge lead to Australia 'keeping coal in the hole'?
… comes just 24 hours after the 2015 Global Climate Change Performance Index (PDF)  ranked Australia as the worst performing industrial country … to the Green Climate Fund. "Perhaps the Climate Change Performance Index was the final humiliation needed and this marks the beginning of …
News, 10 December 2014
Corporates could teach NGOs a thing or two about sustainability
… that reason they both rank high on the Social Media Sustainability Index , written by Matthew Yeomans and fellow Social Media Influence … of the companies ranked were listed in leading sustainable company indexes, including the Dow Jones Sustainability indexes and FTSE …
Blog, 27 June 2012
Q&A: Mali is extremely vulnerable and unable to combat climate change impacts
… country's GDP. Mali now ranks 161 out of 178 countries in the ND-GAIN index (a University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index  project, which shows a country's vulnerability to climate change …
Article, 24 November 2015
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… Furthermore, according to the OECD’s Social Institutions & Gender Index, as of 2014 (PDF) , laws or customary practices of 102 countries …
Blog, 09 October 2018
Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
… joint 139th in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index and Nigeria remains 153rd in the Human Development Index . While EITI is a relatively young international standard, it is …
Blog, 23 May 2013