the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by …Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor … insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of …

evidence that droughts may become more frequent in the future, it is clear that even without an increase in frequency, drought …

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), has been proposed as a pan-Africa drought risk pool to insure against drought risk in …

income variance, which in turn can cause them to pursue costly risk-coping strategies and to fall below poverty trap … poverty alleviation in the present to prevent poverty in the future. A poverty reduction strategy that does not distinguish … between transient and structural poverty leads to inefficient use of resources, in that it focuses on those who are …

farmers are apt to respond to future climate change-induced shocks, in particular drought. Droughts are expected to increase … in both frequency and intensity as a result of climate change. This study examines the costs of drought today and who it … living in a drought-prone environment. The types of households that were more vulnerable to climate shocks are analyzed using …