TY - JOUR
T1 - Earth observation for drought risk financing in pastoral systems of sub-Saharan Africa
AU - Fava, Francesco
AU - Vrieling, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The CGIAR Research program on Livestock and contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund are acknowledged for supporting this research. Anton Vrieling was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Space for Global Development (WOTRO) programme, as part of the CGIAR-Netherlands partnership. We thank Nathaniel Jensen (ILRI) and James Hassell (Smithsonian GHP) for their valuable comments and inputs on the manuscript.
Funding Information:
The CGIAR Research program on Livestock and contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund are acknowledged for supporting this research. Anton Vrieling was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) , Space for Global Development (WOTRO) programme, as part of the CGIAR-Netherlands partnership. We thank Nathaniel Jensen (ILRI) and James Hassell (Smithsonian GHP) for their valuable comments and inputs on the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - As climate-related crises increase globally, climate risk financing is becoming an integral part of financial protection and resilience building strategies of African countries. Drought-induced crises result in devastating human impacts and high costs for vulnerable countries, threatening longer-term investments and development efforts. While earth observation (EO) has been widely used for drought early warning, new opportunities emerge from integrating EO data and methods into index-based drought risk financing (IBDRF) instruments. Such instruments aim at supporting an effective and timely response during drought shocks and improving the resilience of small-holder farmers and livestock keepers. This review documents the current status, and discusses future prospects and potential challenges for EO utilization in IBDRF applications in sub-Saharan Africa. We focus on pastoral systems, which are hotspots in terms of vulnerability to climate and environmental change, food insecurity, poverty, and conflicts. In these systems, EO-based IBDRF interventions are rapidly scaling up as part of national and international risk management strategies.
AB - As climate-related crises increase globally, climate risk financing is becoming an integral part of financial protection and resilience building strategies of African countries. Drought-induced crises result in devastating human impacts and high costs for vulnerable countries, threatening longer-term investments and development efforts. While earth observation (EO) has been widely used for drought early warning, new opportunities emerge from integrating EO data and methods into index-based drought risk financing (IBDRF) instruments. Such instruments aim at supporting an effective and timely response during drought shocks and improving the resilience of small-holder farmers and livestock keepers. This review documents the current status, and discusses future prospects and potential challenges for EO utilization in IBDRF applications in sub-Saharan Africa. We focus on pastoral systems, which are hotspots in terms of vulnerability to climate and environmental change, food insecurity, poverty, and conflicts. In these systems, EO-based IBDRF interventions are rapidly scaling up as part of national and international risk management strategies.
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UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://library.itc.utwente.nl/login/2021/isi/vrieling_ear.pdf
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.006
M3 - Article
VL - 48
SP - 44
EP - 52
JO - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
JF - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -