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 … result of drought shocks. Tackling the vulnerability of farming communities is at the core of drought risk reduction and …

This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in … smallholder agriculture, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its promise to integrate local agricultural risk smoothing …

. Diversification into off-farm activities is driven by drought-related productivity declines in agriculture and contributes to … data and exploiting spatial-temporal variations in drought exposure, we find that households reduce on-farm work and … resilience. …