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Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought : A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Mali (English)

Livestock is fundamental to the national economies and welfare of households in Sahel countries. The Sahel is very prone to droughts and shifting climatic patterns. Drought costs in the Sahel region are extremely high, especially for pastoralists. Drought costs in the Sahel region are extremely high, especially to the pastoralists. Between 1950 and 1970, the Sahel experienced abnormally high rainfall, well above the long-term 1898-93 average. In Mali...
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Fava, Francesco; Banerjee, Rupsha; Kahiu, Njoki; Maiga, Assoumane; Lung, Felix; Jensen, Nathan; Tenin Fatimata Dicko; John Luke Plevin.

Strengthening Financial Resilience to Drought : A Feasibility Study for an Index-based Drought Risk Financing Solution for Pastoralists in Mali (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099900108022413578

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