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. …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …