{"id":90,"date":"2017-04-05T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:53:43","slug":"prototype-tool-can-help-maintain-farmers-involvement-in-index-insurance-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/2017\/04\/05\/prototype-tool-can-help-maintain-farmers-involvement-in-index-insurance-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype tool can help maintain farmers\u2019 involvement in index insurance projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/04\/32502202405_a48f12bc91_z-300x218-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: B. Powell (IRI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Subsistence farming of maize, groundnut, and millet is the dominating means of livelihood in Tambacounda, a region in eastern Senegal about the size of Denmark. Most smallholder farmers in the region do not have irrigation, so their crops are dependent on rainfall, known as rain-fed agriculture. But rainfall can be good on some years and bad on others\u2014and it is just one of the many climate-related challenges that smallholder farmers face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/blog\/prototype-tool-can-help-maintain-farmers%E2%80%99-involvement-index-insurance-projects#.WOVwRu3GZF0.wordpress\">Prototype tool can help maintain farmers\u2019 involvement in index insurance projects<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subsistence farming of maize, groundnut, and millet is the dominating means of livelihood in Tambacounda, a region in eastern Senegal about the size of Denmark. Most smallholder farmers in the region do not have irrigation, so their crops are dependent on rainfall, known as rain-fed agriculture. But rainfall can be good on some years and&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,25,10,11],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-index-insurance","tag-climate-services","tag-farmer-participation","tag-senegal","tag-smallholder-farmers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}