{"id":176,"date":"2017-04-29T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T12:09:38","slug":"enacts-transforms-insurance-projects-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/2017\/04\/29\/enacts-transforms-insurance-projects-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"ENACTS Transforms Insurance Projects in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>ENACTS Transforms Insurance Projects in Africa<\/h1>\n<div class=\"news-post-meta\">Posted by IRI on April 12, 2017<\/div>\n<p><em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/iri.columbia.edu\/contact\/staff-directory\/daniel-osgood\/\">Dan Osgood<\/a>,\u00a0Lead Scientist, IRI <a href=\"http:\/\/iri.columbia.edu\/our-expertise\/financial-instruments\/\">Financial Instruments Sector Team<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Small farms are vulnerable to climate risk, but most smallholder farmers around the world don\u2019t have access to insurance and other financial tools to manage fluctuations in climate. Over the past decade we\u2019ve put a great deal of effort into a new kind of insurance\u2013index insurance\u2013that may have the potential to reach these farmers. Unlike more traditional forms of insurance, which require individual verification of losses, index insurance works by providing payouts when a measurable index flags a major problem that the farmers face, such as a widespread drought or flood. In theory, this should allow insurance coverage to reach many more farmers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16418\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iri.columbia.edu\/news\/enacts-transforms-insurance-projects-in-africa\/\">Read the rest of the article<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENACTS Transforms Insurance Projects in Africa Posted by IRI on April 12, 2017 By Dan Osgood,\u00a0Lead Scientist, IRI Financial Instruments Sector Team Small farms are vulnerable to climate risk, but most smallholder farmers around the world don\u2019t have access to insurance and other financial tools to manage fluctuations in climate. Over the past decade we\u2019ve&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,34,37,36,14],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-index-insurance","tag-enacts","tag-ethiopia","tag-index-design","tag-iri","tag-r4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}