Conference Session: Building capacity for climate change adaptation and poverty alleviation: the role of social protection
This session explores the possibilities of using social protection to build resilience to climate change, addressing the following questions: How has social protection been used to reduce risk and vulnerability to climate change? What are the methodological challenges of targeting the most vulnerable? What kinds of policies need to be in place to build resilience over the next century?
This session explores the possibilities of using social protection to build resilience to climate change, addressing the following questions: How has social protection been used to reduce risk and vulnerability to climate change? What are the methodological challenges of targeting the most vulnerable? What kinds of policies need to be in place to build resilience over the next century?
The conference session will be chaired by Craig Johnson, Martin Prowse and Tom Mitchell
Convenors will be:
Craig Johnson, University of Guelph;
Tom Mitchell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI);
Martin Prowse, University of Antwerp;
Hari Bansha Dulal, World Bank.
During the session, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will be presenting a paper on “Linking Social Protection and Adaptive Capacity to Minimize Risk of Drought through Agroforestry”.
CCAFS Science Officer Moushumi Chaudhury will be presenting the paper 'Climate change adaptation and social protection in agricultural systems:case studies from Zambia and Honduras'. For more information click here.