Developing Climate Adaptation: The Intersection of Climate Research and Development Programmes in Index Insurance

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 557-584

  Peterson, Nicole D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INSURANCE SYSTEM; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84859818607     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01767.x     Document Type: Article

References (105)

1. Aalst van, M.K., T. Cannon and I. Burton (2008) 'Community Level Adaptation to Climate Change: The Potential Role of Participatory Community Risk Assessment', Global Environmental Change 18(1): 165-79.
2. Abugre, C. (1994) 'When Credit Is Not Due: A Critical Evaluation of Donor NGO Experiences with Credit', in F. Bouman and O. Hospes (eds) Financial Landscapes Reconstructed: The Fine Art of Mapping Development, pp. 157-75. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
3. Adger, W.N. (2006) 'Vulnerability', Global Environmental Change 16(3): 268-81.
4. Adger, W.N., S. Huq, K. Brown, D. Conway and M. Hulme (2003) 'Adaptation to Climate Change in the Developing World', Progress in Development Studies 3(3): 179-95.
5. Agrawala, S. (2005) 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development'. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
6. Agrawala, S. and M. Carraro (2010) 'Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change'. OECD Working Paper Number 15. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
7. Agrawala, S. and S. Fankhauser (2008) 'Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments'. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
8. Amin, S., A. Rai and G. Topa (2003) 'Does Microcredit Reach the Poor and Vulnerable? Evidence from Northern Bangladesh', Journal of Development Economics 70(1): 59-82.
9. Attanasio, O. and J.V. Rios-Rull (2000) 'Consumption Smoothing in Island Economies: Can Public Insurance Reduce Welfare?', European Economic Review 44(7): 1225-58.
10. Banerjee, A. (2000) 'The Two Poverties', Nordic Journal of Political Economy 26(2): 129-41.
11. Barnett, B.J. and O. Mahul (2007) 'Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Areas in Lower-income Countries', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(5): 1241-47.
12. Barnett, B.J., C.B. Barrett and J.R. Skees (2008) 'Poverty Traps and Index-based Risk Transfer Products', World Development 36(10): 1766-85.
13. Bewket, W. and D. Conway (2007) 'A Note on the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Rainfall in the Drought Prone Amhara Region of Ethiopia', International Journal of Climatology 27(11): 1467-77.
14. Blaikie, P. M., T. Cannon, I. Davis and B. Wisner (1994) At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters. London: Routledge.
15. Block, P.J., K. Strzepek, M.W. Rosegrant and X. Diao (2008) 'Impacts of Considering Climate Variability on Investment Decisions in Ethiopia', Agricultural Economics 39(2): 171-81.
16. Botzen, W.J.W., J. C.J.M. van den Bergh and L.M. Bouwer (2010) 'Climate Change and Increased Risk for the Insurance Sector: A Global Perspective and an Assessment for the Netherlands', Natural Hazards 52(3): 577-98.
17. Brett, J. A. (2006) '"We Sacrifice and Eat Less": The Structural Complexities of Microfinance Participation', Human Organization 65(1): 8-19.
18. Brooks, N., N. Grist and K. Brown (2009) 'Development Futures in the Context of Climate Change: Challenging the Present and Learning from the Past', Development Policy Review 27(6): 741-65.
19. Bryan, E., T.T. Deressa, G.A. Gbetibouo and C. Ringler (2009) 'Adaptation to Climate Change in Ethiopia and South Africa: Options and Constraints', Environmental Science & Policy 12(4): 413-26.
20. Buckley, G. (1997) 'Microfinance in Africa: Is It Either the Problem or the Solution?', World Development 25(7): 1081-93.
21. Byerlee, D.R., D.J. Spielman, D. Alemu and M. Gautam (2007) 'Policies to Promote Cereal Intensification in Ethiopia: A Review of Evidence and Experience'. IFPRI Discussion Paper 00707. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
22. Campbell, J.Y. (2006) 'Household Finance', The Journal of Finance 61(4): 1553-604.
23. Carter, M.R., C.B. Barrett, S. Boucher, S. Chantarat, F. Galarza et al. (2008) 'Insuring the Never Before Insured: Explaining Index Insurance through Financial Education Games', BASIS Brief 2008-07: 1-8.
24. Castree, N. (2008) 'Neoliberalising Nature: The Logics of Deregulation and Reregulation', Environment and Planning A 40(1): 131-52.
25. Chambers, R.G., A. Pacey and L.A. Thrupp (1989) Farmer First: Farmer Innovation and Agricultural Research. London: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.
26. Clarke, D. and S. Dercon (2009) 'Insurance, Credit and Safety Nets for the Poor in a World of Risk'. DESA Working Paper No. 8.
27. Cohen, M. and J. Sebstad (2005) 'Policy Arena: Reducing Vulnerability: The Demand for Microinsurance', Journal of International Development 17: 397-474.
28. Collier, B., J. Skees and B. Barnett (2009) 'Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries', The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 34(3): 401-24.
29. Conway, D. and E.L.F. Schipper (2011) 'Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities Identified from Ethiopia', Global Environmental Change 21(1): 227-37.
30. Cooper, M. (2010) 'Turbulent Worlds', Theory, Culture & Society 27(2-3): 167-90.
31. Cull, R., Á. Demirguc-Kunt and J. Morduch (2009) 'Microfinance Meets the Market', Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(1): 167-92.
32. Demeke, A., A. Keil and M. Zeller (2012) 'Using Panel Data to Estimate the Effect of Rainfall Shocks on Smallholders Food Security and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia', Climatic Change 108(1): 185-206.
33. Denton, F. (2002) 'Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation: Why Does Gender Matter?', Gender & Development 10(2): 10-20.
34. Dercon, S. (2002) 'Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets', World Bank Research Observer 17: 141-66.
35. Dercon, S. (2010) 'Globalization and Marginalization in Africa: Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia', in M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke (eds) The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, pp. 368-98. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
36. Dercon, S., J. Hoddinott and T. Woldehanna (2005) 'Shocks and Consumption in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999-2004', Journal of African Economies 14(4): 559-85.
37. Dercon, S., J. De Weerdt, T. Bold and A. Pankhurst (2006) 'Group-based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania', World Development 34(4): 685-703.
38. Deressa, T.T. and R.M. Hassan (2009) 'Economic Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production in Ethiopia: Evidence from Cross-section Measures', Journal of African Economies 18(4): 529-54.
39. Devereux, S., R. Sabates-Wheeler, M. Tefera and H. Taye (2006) 'Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP): Trends in PSNP Transfers within Targeted Households'. Report commissioned by DFID Ethiopia. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies; Addis Ababa: Indak International.
40. Downing, T.E., L. Ringius, M. Hulme and D. Waughray (1997) 'Adapting to Climate Change in Africa', Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2(1): 19-44.
41. Eriksen, S.E., R.J. Klein, K. Ulsrud, L.O. Naess and K. O'Brien (2007) 'Climate Change Adaptation and Poverty Reduction: Key Interactions and Critical Measures'. GECHS Report 1. Oslo: University of Oslo.
42. Escobar, A. (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
43. Escobar, A. (2008) Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
44. Evenson, R.E. and D. Gollin (2003) 'Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000', Science 300(5620): 758-62.
45. Ferguson, J. (1990) The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development, ' Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
46. Funk, C., M.D. Dettinger, J.C. Michaelsen, J.P. Verdin, M.E. Brown et al. (2008) 'Warming of the Indian Ocean Threatens Eastern and Southern African Food Security but Could be Mitigated by Agricultural Development', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(32): 11081-86.
47. Funk, C., G. Senay, A. Asfaw, J. Verdin, J. Rowland et al. (2005) 'Recent Drought Tendencies in Ethiopia and Equatorial/Subtropical Eastern Africa'. FEWS NET Report.
48. Gilligan, D.O., J. Hoddinott and A.S. Taffesse (2009) 'The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program and its Linkages', Journal of Development Studies 45(10): 1684-1706.
49. Glaeser, B. (ed.) (1987) The Green Revolution Revisited: Critique and Alternatives, London: Allen & Unwin.
50. Hazell, P. and J. R. Skees (2006) 'Insuring against Bad Weather: Recent Thinking', in R. Radhakrishna, S.K. Rao, S.M. Dev and K. Subbarao (eds) India in a Globalizing World: Some Aspects of Macroeconomy, Agriculture, and Poverty, pp. 429-52. New Delhi: Academic Foundation and Hyderabad: Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS).
51. Hellmuth, M.E., D.E. Osgood, U. Hess, A. Moorhead and H. Bhojwani (eds) (2009) Index Insurance and Climate Risk: Prospects for Development and Disaster Management. New York: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University.
52. Holden, S., C.B. Barrett and F. Hagos (2006) 'Food-for-Work for Poverty Reduction and the Promotion of Sustainable Land Use: Can it Work?', Environment and Development Economics 11(1): 15-38.
53. Howden, S.M., J.-F. Soussana, F.N. Tubiello, N. Chhetri, M. Dunlop et al. (2007) 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(50): 19691-19696.
54. Hulme, M., S. Dessai, I. Lorenzoni and D.R. Nelson (2009) 'Unstable Climates: Exploring the Statistical and Social Constructions of "Normal" Climate', Geoforum 40: 197-206.
55. Huq, S., H. Reid and L.A. Murray (2006) 'Climate Change and Development Links. Gatekeeper 123'. London: International Institute for Environment and Development.
56. Isserles, R. G. (2003) 'Microcredit: The Rhetoric of Empowerment, the Reality of "Development as Usual"', Women's Studies Quarterly 31(3): 38-57.
57. Jones, N., Y. Tafere and T. Woldehanna (2010) 'Gendered Risks, Poverty and Vulnerability in Ethiopia: To what Extent is the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) Making a Difference?'. London: Overseas Development Institute.
58. Kates, R. W. (2000) 'Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor', Climatic Change 45(1): 5-17.
59. Kidane, C. (2006) 'The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia'. PhD Dissertation, Department of Food Business and Development, University College Cork.
60. Kunreuther, H.C. (2006) 'Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance?', in R. Daniels, D. Kettl and H. Kunreuther (eds) On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, pp. 175-202. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
61. Kunreuther, H.C. and P.K. Freeman (1997) Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute; Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
62. Kunreuther, H. and E. Michel-Kerjan (2007) 'Climate Change, Insurability of Large-Scale Risks and the Emerging Liability Challenge', Penn Law Review 155: 1795-842.
63. Kunreuther, H.C. and M. Pauly (2006) 'Rules Rather than Discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33(1): 101-16.
64. Lim, B., E. Spanger-Siegfried, I. Burton, E. Malone and S. Huq (2005) Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change: Developing Strategies, Policies and Measures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. Linnerooth-Bayer, J. and R. Mechler (2006) 'Insurance for Assisting Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Proposed Strategy', Climate Policy 6(6): 621-36.
66. Magadza, C. (2003) 'Engaging Africa in Adaptation to Climate Change', in J.B. Smith, R.J.T. Klein and S. Huq (eds) Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Development, pp. 261-84. London: Imperial College Press.
67. Majumdar, A. (2009) 'Development through Capitalism? A Study of Microinsurance in West Bengal, India'. MA thesis, Department of Geography, University of Guelph.
68. Manuamorn, O.P. (2007) 'Scaling up Microinsurance: The Case of Weather Insurance for Smallholders in India'. Agriculture and Rural Development Discussion Paper 36. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
69. Mayoux, L. (2010) 'Reaching and Empowering Women: Towards a Gender Justice Protocol for a Diversified, Inclusive, and Sustainable Financial Sector', Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 9(3): 581-600.
70. McCarthy, J. (2004) 'Privatizing Conditions of Production: Trade Agreements as Neoliberal Environmental Governance', Geoforum 35(3): 327-41.
71. Mechler, R., J. Linnerooth-Bayer and D. Peppiatt (2006) Disaster Insurance for the Poor? A Review of Microinsurance for Natural Disaster Risks in Developing Countries. Geneva and Laxenburg: ProVention Consortium and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
72. Mileti, D.S. (1999) Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
73. Mills, E. (2005) 'Insurance in a Climate of Change', Science 309(5737): 1040-44.
74. Mills, E. (2007) 'Synergisms between Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: An Insurance Perspective', Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12(5): 809-42.
75. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (2006) 'Productive Safety Net Programme: Programme Implementation Manual (Revised)'. Addis Ababa: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
76. Morduch, J. (2000) 'The Microfinance Schism', World Development 28(4): 617-29.
77. Morduch, J. (2001) 'Rainfall Insurance and Vulnerability: Economic Principles and Cautionary Notes'. Working paper. New York University.
78. Morduch, J. (2006) 'Micro-Insurance: The Next Revolution?', in A. Banerjee, R. Benabou and D. Mookherjee (eds) Understanding Poverty, pp. 337-56. New York: Oxford University Press.
79. Navajas, S., M. Schreiner, R.L. Meyer, C. Gonzalez-Vega and J. Rodriguez-Meza (2000) 'Microcredit and the Poorest of the Poor: Theory and Evidence from Bolivia', World Development 28(2): 333-46.
80. Nyong, A., F. Adesina and B. Osman Elasha (2007) 'The Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the African Sahel', Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12(5): 787-97.
81. O'Brien, K.L. and R.M. Leichenko (2000) 'Double Exposure: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change within the Context of Economic Globalization', Global Environmental Change, Part A: Human and Policy Dimensions 10(3): 221-32.
82. Osgood, D.E., M. McLaurin, M. Carriquiry, A. Mishra, F. Fiondella et al. (2007) 'Designing Weather Insurance Contracts for Farmers in Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya'. Final Report to the Commodity Risk Management Group, ARD and World Bank. New York: International Research Institute for Climate and Society Earth Institute (IRI), Columbia University.
83. Pankhurst, A. (2009) 'Rethinking Safety Nets and Household Vulnerability in Ethiopia: Implications of Household Cycles, Types and Shocks'. Paper presented at the World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, Groningen (4-7 February).
84. Patt, A., N. Peterson, M. Carter, M. Velez, U. Hess et al. (2009) 'Making Index Insurance Attractive to Farmers', Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14(8): 737-53.
85. Patt, A., P. Suarez and U. Hess (2010) 'How do Small-holder Farmers Understand Insurance, and How Much do they Want it? Evidence from Africa', Global Environmental Change 20(1): 153-61.
86. Pelling, M. (1999) 'The Political Ecology of Flood Hazard in Urban Guyana', Geoforum 30(3): 249-61.
87. Pellizzoni, L. (2011) 'Governing through Disorder: Neoliberal Environmental Governance and Social Theory', Global Environmental Change 21(3): 795-803.
88. Robinson, M.S. (2001) 'The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor'. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications.
89. Schipper, E.L.F. (2007) 'Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Exploring the Linkages'. Tyndall Centre Working Paper 107. Norwich: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
90. Schuurman, F.J. (1993) Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory. London: Zed Books.
91. Sharp, K., T. Brown and A. Teshome (2006) 'Targeting Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)'. London and Bristol: Overseas Development Institute and the IDL Group Ltd.
92. Shiva, V. (1991) The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics. London: Zed Books.
93. Skees, J.R. and B. Collier (2008) 'The Potential of Weather Index Insurance for Spurring a Green Revolution in Africa'. Lexington, KY: Global Ag Risk Inc. (accessed 6 September 2011).
94. Skees, J., B. Barnett and B. Collier (2008) 'Agricultural Insurance: Background and Context for Climate Adaptation Discussions'. Paper presented at the OECD Expert Workshop on Economic Aspects of Adaptation, Paris (7-8 April).
95. Skees, J., B. Barnett and J. Hartell (2005) 'Innovations in Government Responses to Catastrophic Risk Sharing for Agriculture in Developing Countries'. Paper presented at the 26th conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Queensland, Australia (12-18 August).
96. Smit, B., O. Pilifosova, I. Burton, B. Challenger, S. Huq, R.J.T. Klein and G. Yohe (2001) 'Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development and Equity', in J.J. McCarthy et al. (eds) Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pp. 879-906. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
97. Stern, N.H. (2007) The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
98. Suarez, P. and J. Linnerooth-Bayer (2010) 'Micro-insurance for Local Adaptation', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 1(2): 271-78.
99. Thomas, D.S.G., C. Twyman, H. Osbahr and B. Hewitson (2007) 'Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Farmer Responses to Intra-Seasonal Precipitation Trends in South Africa', Climatic Change 83(3): 301-22.
100. Thomson, M., K. Abayomi, A. Barnston, M. Levy and M. Dilley (2003) 'El Nino and Drought in Southern Africa', The Lancet 361(9355): 437-38.
101. UNFCCC (2010) 'Risk Management Approaches to Address Adverse Effects of Climate Change Insurance'. (accessed 30 July 2010).
102. Watts, M.J. (1983) Silent Violence: Food, Famine, & Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
103. Werner, W.J. (2009) 'Micro-insurance in Bangladesh: Risk Protection for the Poor?', Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 27(4): 563-73.
104. World Bank (2005) Managing Agricultural Production Risk: Innovations in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank Press.
105. Yapa, L. (1996) 'What Causes Poverty? A Postmodern View', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86: 707-28.