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Managing drought risk for food security in Africa: An innovative solution in Malawi

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dc.contributor.authorCommodity Risk Management Groupen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialMalawien
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:46:28Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:46:28Zen
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.description.abstractMalawi has experienced extreme droughts and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint to growth and poverty reduction in the country. An innovative pilot transaction occurred in 2008 transferring the financial risk of national drought to the international risk markets. Weather-risk management transactions can be customized according to each country's needs. While the tool helped Malawi manage its risk, the tool is appropriate for any country whose staple food crop is at risk to systemic weather events, such as drought.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier4255en
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural & Rural Development Notes Issue 4 No. 47432en
dc.identifier.other4255_Manage_drought_risk.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68493en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWashington, D.C.: The World Banken
dc.relation.urihttp://go.worldbank.org/SPR9BOZ5P0en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCrisis interventionen
dc.subjectImportsen
dc.subjectDroughten
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectEconomic modeling and analysisen
dc.subjectFood aiden
dc.subjectDisaster preparednessen
dc.subjectMalawien
dc.subjectWeather-risk management toolsen
dc.subjectMaizeen
dc.subjectWorld Banken
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleManaging drought risk for food security in Africa: An innovative solution in Malawien
dc.typeFact sheeten
dc.typeExtension publicationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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