Climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection: complementary roles in agriculture and rural growth?
This study examines the opportunities for linking social protection, adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the context of agriculture and rural growth, exploring whether linking these three approaches together will help enhance resilience to shocks and stresses in agriculture-dependent rural communities.
It does this:
(i) by reviewing conceptual and policy-related similarities and differences between the three disciplines,
(ii) by collecting evidence from case studies where climate change-resilient social protection approaches have been trialled, and
(iii) by developing an adaptive social protection framework that highlight opportunities better co-ordination.
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Number of pages
42 p.
Publication year
2008