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A selection of notable media clips featuring Oxfam America's insurance and rural resilience (R4) program.
- Stephan Faris, "Seeds fo Change. How a small innovation put crop insurance within reach for poor farmers", Time (September 24, 2012).
- Lisa Friedman, "Companies begin to see necissity and profits in adapting to cliamte change", Climatewire (July 11, 2012).
- Victoria Eastwood, "Insurance helps Kenya's herders protect against drought," CNN (June 18, 2012).
- FARMD, "Oxfam & WFP's R4 initiative Begins Expansion into senegal,Fueled by Success in Ethiopia" (June 5, 2012).
- David Satterthwaite, "Weather Insurance Builds Resilience for Farmers," Momentum (March 2012).
- Jim French, "Ethiopian crop insurance and secret Farm Bill", Hutchnews (December 22, 2011). TreeHugger.com, Hutchinson News, All Voices: Local to Global News, Insurance News and by the World Food Programme.
- David Bornstein, "News Flash: Progress Happens", The New York Time (December 15, 2011). http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/news-flash-progress-happens/
- Agnieszka Flak, "Games wake people up to climate change", Reuters (December 2, 2011). http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/12/02/us-climate-games-idUKTRE7B10HY20111202
- Laurie Goering, "Insurance aims to help herders avoid 'downward spiral' from drought", AlertNet (November 30, 2011): http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/insurance-aims-to-help-herders-avoid-downward-spiral-from-drought
- Lisa Jones Christensen, "Case study: Swiss Re and Oxfam", The Financial Times (November 1, 2011)
- DesMoinesRegister.com, “Crop insurance can pay off for small African farms” (October 13, 2011).
- Global Washington blog, “Reforming Aid: Transforming the World” (September 8, 2011).
- Alertnet, “Scaling Up Innovative Climate Change Adaptation and Insurance Solutions In Senegal” (September 19, 2011).
- Alertnet, Index Insurance in East Africa, a video produced by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (September 2011).
- Reuters, “Swiss Re Joins Ethiopian Micro-Insurance Project” (June 10, 2011).
- Tina Rosenberg, “To Survive Famine, Will Work for Insurance,” The New York Times (May 12, 2011).
- IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis, “Ethiopia: Taking the Disaster Out of Drought” (November 24, 2010).
- “Global Insurance Industry Statement on Adapting to Climate Change in Developing Countries,” ClimateWise, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, the Geneva Association, and the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) (September 2010).
- Evan Lehmann, “Supporters of Global Insurance Program Hope to Rebound After Dreary Copenhagen Summit,” ClimateWire (August 4, 2010).
- MicroRisk, “Swiss Re Climate-Linked Crop Insurance Takes Off” (July 2010).
- Deborah Kerby, “Climate Covered,” Green Futures (July 2010).
- Lloyd’s News and Features, “Microinsurance to Mitigate Climate Change Impact” (June 4, 2010).
- Omer Redi, “Insurance Firm Sows Seeds,” Addis Fortune (June 14, 2009).
- Anne Chetaille and Damien Lagrandré, “L’assurance indicielle, une réponse face aux risques climatiques?” Inter-réseaux Développement rural (March 31, 2010).
- Pablo Suarez and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, “Micro-Insurance for Local Adaptation,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (March 12, 2010).
- New England Cable News, “Oxfam Provides Farm Insurance in Africa” (November 6, 2009).
- James F. Smith, “World’s Poorest Farmers Now Offered Insurance,” The Boston Globe (October 13, 2009).
- Evan Lehmann, “Africa Experiments With Climate Insurance—for $5 a Year,” The New York Times (September 30, 2009).
- “Swiss Re, Oxfam America, Rockefeller Foundation, and Columbia’s IRI Expand Joint Risk Initiative in Tigray, Ethiopia,” Swiss Re press release (September 25, 2009).
- The Guardian, “Climate Insurance: What Kind of Deal Can Be Made in Copenhagen?” (July 24, 2009).
- Jeff Tollefson, “Insuring Against Climate” Nature (July 22, 2009).
- Catherine Brahic, “An Insurance Plan for Climate, Change Victims” New Scientist (July 1, 2009).
- Newsweek, “Coping With Climate” (December 29, 2008).
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