production costs associated with drought. Villages were randomized into either an insurance treatment or a comparison group, and …

outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show that this causality is valid also for Somalia at the local level. We find … that livestock price shocks drive drought-induced conflicts through reducing the opportunity costs of conflict … aggravate Somalia’s security challenges and calls for decisive action to strengthen both drought and conflict resilience …

vulnerable to these effects. This study was undertaken to assess if various drought-proofing and drought-relief programs are … relevant as Bihar has experienced four drought years since 2009. The drought in 2009 led to an increase in the number of poor … government of Bihar runs a number of drought-proofing and drought-relief programs to mitigate the impact of drought, but with …

was to characterize extreme drought events, to improve on a methodology to assess the probability of these events in the … sets the stage for the overall project by undertaking a review of the causes of vulnerability to drought in East Africa and … the western Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of South Asia, and discussing the options to increase resilience to drought in the …

observed drought as the most extreme climatic event which resulted in heavy crop loss to them. Lastly, farmers revealed that …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary … independently and in a bundled package. Findings indicate that farmers are generally unwilling to pay for drought-tolerant rice …