Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agri-food
value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live …

Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector
can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like …

The global response to warming of 1.5 oC comprises transitions in land and ecosystem,
energy, urban and infrastructure, and industrial systems. The feasibility of mitigation and …

Women's empowerment is considered a 'prerequisite'to achieving global food security.
Gender systems, however, are diverse and complex. The nature and extent of gender …

There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in
South Asia. Such 'scale-appropriate'machinery can increase returns to land and labour …

Abstract Rural households in South Asia's coastal deltas face numerous livelihood
challenges, including risks posed by climatic variability and extreme weather events. This …

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is increasingly seen as a promising approach to feed the
growing world population under climate change. The review explored how institutional …

Agriculture represents one of the most vulnerable sectors to extreme weather events that are
projected to increase with climate change. Insurance has been advocated as a more …

Background Weather-related risks thwart agricultural productivity gains especially in the face
of climate change. Agricultural insurance serves as a reliable risk mitigation instrument for …

This paper explores the gender-differentiated effects of weather shocks on households'
welfare in Malawi using panel data aligned with climatic records. Results show that …