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In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …
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drought in the different administrative units of each country, and d) evaluate different types of interventions in agriculture … development of drylands are assessed in this book through the lens of resilience, understood here to mean the ability of people to … modeling framework consisted in a) estimating the baseline vulnerability profiles of people living in drylands (2010), b …
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The recent emergence of weather index insurance offers a promising new risk management tool for African smallholder farmers. Providing a nontechnical introduction to insurance economics, this paper reviews the challenges faced by the pioneers of agricultural weather index insurance. The greatest...
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drought in the different administrative units of each country, and d) evaluate different types of interventions in agriculture … development of drylands are assessed in this book through the lens of resilience, understood here to mean the ability of people to ….Such modeling framework consisted in a) estimating the baseline vulnerability profiles of people living in drylands (2010), b …
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